| 单词 | pernicious |
| 释义 | per·ni·cious I. 1. < a pernicious influence > < pernicious habits > < pernicious nonsense > < a pernicious practice > < pernicious disease > < emphasis on fixed order frequently results in pernicious restraints against growing and vital movement — M.R.Cohen > < no excuse for allowing our children to be taught a morality which we ourselves believe to be pernicious — Bertrand Russell > 2. archaic < two pernicious daughters — Shakespeare > Synonyms: < pernicious social institutions which stifle the nobler impulses and encourage the baser — V.L.Parrington > < addiction, on the other hand, carries with it a certain stigma which is not unjustified; it suggests the connotation of a pernicious or harmful repetitive act which gets out of the control of the individual — D.W.Maurer & V.H.Vogel > baneful may describe anything malevolent or malignant that is likely to kill, poison, or destroy < the baneful influence of this narrow construction on all the operations of the government — John Marshall > < seen to be the outward projections of baneful subconscious elements and add up to a fearful indictment of the man — Times Literary Supplement > noxious may refer to what is at once harmful and unwholesome, corrupting, or noisome < the primitive plumbing of the 1870s, by conveying noxious odors into the rooms, was often a threat to the family health — A.M.Schlesinger b.1888 > < when the educator shall have been educated, the air cleared of noxious fallacies, and a sound and virile conception of learning restored — C.H.Grandgent > deleterious describes whatever has a harmful effect, often in some concealed or unguessed way < it was obvious that lime juice adulterated with five percent sulphuric acid, jellies with formaldehyde, peas with copper, cheap flavoring extracts with wood alcohol, and coloring matter with arsenic or mercury were highly deleterious to health — V.G.Heiser > < heroin and other deleterious drugs — H.L.Ickes > detrimental is a general adjective for anything that harms < neutralizing or eliminating those influences in military aviation which are detrimental to the efficiency, health, or life of flying personnel — H.G.Armstrong > < the wheat is cleaned and scrubbed and the fine hairs, detrimental to color and quality, removed — American Guide Series: Minnesota > II. archaic |
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