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harmlessly

/hahrm-lis/US // ˈhɑrm lɪs //UK // (ˈhɑːmlɪs) //

无害的,无害地,无害,无伤大雅

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : without the power or desire to do harm; innocuous: He looks mean but he's harmless; a harmless Halloween prank.
    • : without injury; unhurt; unharmed.

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Examples

  • J&J’s shot uses a cold virus like a Trojan horse to carry the spike gene into the body, where cells make harmless copies of the protein to prime the immune system in case the real virus comes along.

  • That’s likely also the case with the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, which employs a harmless type of cold virus, to which a section of coronavirus is added.

  • Had it been five degrees lower, it would have been dry and relatively harmless.

  • Jenner’s great advance was to use a related but relatively harmless virus.

  • Delete old appsIt may seem harmless to leave old apps kicking around on your phone or computer, but there are some downsides.

  • The motives were most always harmless, and only sometimes ethically questionable.

  • Knowing the fellow to be both poor and harmless, I quietly gave him one.

  • Of the over 100 strains, the majority are harmless and a healthy immune system will fight it without a person ever realizing it.

  • A harmless woman is being harassed online by a nerdy subculture.

  • Are you not defeating the cause by demonstrating violence in your response to a nonviolent, harmless kid?

  • Y was a Youth, that did not love school; Z was a Zany, a poor harmless fool.

  • This harmless image of a fierce beast Yung Pak would pull about the floor with a string by the hour.

  • In some animals they are apparently harmless; in others they are an important cause of disease.

  • The motive of this harmless ruse was to bolster up Spanish prestige and thereby avoid bloodshed.

  • She tolerated, indeed she sometimes even smiled at the gallant captain's pleasantries, when they were of a harmless sort.