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单词 perniciously
释义
perniciousper‧ni‧cious /pəˈnɪʃəs $ pər-/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINpernicious
Origin:
1500-1600 French pernicieux, from Latin perniciosus, from pernicies ‘destruction’, from nex ‘violent death’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a pernicious lie
  • the pernicious effects of advertising
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And how did this pernicious self-image arise?
  • Gastrin levels may also be elevated by pernicious anemia. duodenal ulcers, and after a meal.
  • How can a struggling organization escape this pernicious cycle of perpetual reaction and strife?
  • In 1937, she had felt she had had enough of the pernicious course of human history.
  • In addition, Roycayrol and Cattan studied fundic biopsy specimens of 18 totally achlorhydric patients, 12 of whom had pernicious anaemia.
  • Unfortunately in 1971 I was not protected from that most pernicious word by those inverted commas.
  • We are so easily led to pernicious solutions.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
causing physical harm – used especially about things that cause harm to your health, the environment etc: · Smoking is harmful to your health.· drugs with harmful side effects
to have a harmful effect on someone or something. This phrase is very commonly used in everyday English when saying that something is harmful: · Everyone knows that too much alcohol is bad for you.
used about things that cause permanent physical harm, or that have a bad effect in other ways, for example on people’s opinion of someone: · Acid rain has a damaging effect on trees and the soil.· The allegations were very damaging to his career.· Constant criticism is damaging to a child’s self-esteem.
formal causing harm or having a bad effect on something: · Employers are worried that the new laws will have a detrimental effect on their business.· chemicals that are detrimental to the environment· policies that have been detrimental to the interests of old people
a negative effect is one that is bad and causes problems: · The car tax had a negative effect on car sales.· the negative impact of the recession in the US
hazardous substances are likely to be dangerous to people’s health and safety: · Hazardous waste needs to be disposed of safely.· hazardous chemicals
toxic substances, smoke etc are poisonous: · toxic waste· toxic fumes· Toxic chemicals spilled into the river.
formal used about something that has a gradual bad effect which is not easy to notice, especially on people’s morals, or on their health: · the pernicious effects of violent video games· the pernicious effect of secondhand smoke
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· Is this not the worst and most pernicious kind of sexism?· This is legislating science at its most pernicious.· The most pernicious consequence of these internal Soviet developments was the disorientation of the proletarian vanguard in other countries.
NOUN
· Similar findings were also reported by Sjöblom etal studying patients with pernicious anaemia.· It has long been known that pernicious anaemia predisposes to development of gastric adenocarcinoma.· These patients were characterised by an early onset and long duration of pernicious anaemia.· The need for gastroscopic follow up of pernicious anaemia patients is therefore still debated.· More recent findings indicate that hypergastrinaemia associated with pernicious anaemia leads to hyperplasia of fundic endocrine cells.· In association with endocrine cell hyperplasia, gastric carcinoid tumours have been observed in 1-7% of pernicious anaemia patients screened by gastroscopy.· In this study we evaluated the findings of follow up gastroscopies performed three years after primary gastroscopic screening of pernicious anaemia patients.· These patients had been treated earlier for pernicious anaemia in the same hospital between 1972 and 1985.
· To escape the pernicious influence of fashion we need three things.· Their words infuse the air Britain breathes, serving just three press magnates whose pernicious influence corrodes all political discourse.
very harmful or evil, often in a way that you do not notice easily:  the pernicious effects of poverty the media’s pernicious influence see thesaurus at harmfulperniciously adverb
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