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发表于 2009-5-19 23:50:40
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pernicious
\pur-NISH-us\, adjective:
Highly injurious; deadly; destructive; exceedingly harmful.
形容词 a.
1.有害的,有毒的;恶性的,致命的
Smoking is a pernicious habit.
抽烟是一种有害的习惯。
2.坏的,邪恶的
Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.
~Wendy Lesser, "Who's Afraid of Arnold Bennett?", New York Times, September 28, 1997
But he said they were not thinkers but snobs, and their influence was pernicious.
~Saul Bellow, Ravelstein
Racism should be condemned because its effects are pernicious.
~Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Peoples, and Languages
Pernicious comes from Latin perniciosus, "destructive, ruinous," from pernicies, "destruction, disaster, ruin," from per-, "through, thoroughly" + nex, nec-, "violent death."
A good conscience is a soft pillow.
不做亏心事,不怕鬼叫门。
Which letter of the alphabet separates Europe from Africa?
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