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miasma

/mahy-az-muh, mee-/US // maɪˈæz mə, mi- //UK // (mɪˈæzmə) //

瘴气,沴气,瘴疠,沴

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural mi·as·mas, mi·as·ma·ta [mahy-az-muh-tuh, mee-]. /maɪˈæz mə tə, mi-/.

    • : noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
    • : a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere.

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Examples

  • It’s also possible the miasmas of their lives and interests will swirl off in other directions for any number of other reasons independent of how they feel about each other.

  • A pandemic raced over the land, there were wildfires, uneasy political divisions, and we gasped in the miasma of social media.

  • Since then, a black miasma of recursive vengeance has descended upon Iraq.

  • The air of CGI is thick with the miasma of biz-school neologisms.

  • And I wonder if what we are looking at with the “fly by” of Minneapolis might not be a form of miasma—called boredom.

  • Tories will wax eloquent on "the pink miasma of revolutionary Radicalism."

  • The pollution (miasma) of sin is precipitated by his blood, the power of sin is conquered by his Spirit.

  • But we rather overdid the miasma, so it was abolished by mutual consent.

  • Many of the women were adding their cigarette-smoke to the haze settling over all like a gray miasma.

  • Miasma has polluted the atmosphere so long that people do not know the feeling of untainted air.