effluvium
/ih-floo-vee-uhm/US // ɪˈflu vi əm //UK // (ɛˈfluːvɪəm) //
污水,流水,流出物,污水处理
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n.名词 noun
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plural ef·flu·vi·a [ih-floo-vee-uh], /ɪˈflu vi ə/, ef·flu·vi·ums.
- : a slight or invisible exhalation or vapor, especially one that is disagreeable or noxious.
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It is the moral effluvium out of which our modern civilization has constructed itself.
He shook a musty effluvium from his piebald clothes, overturned my inkstand, and went on with his insufferable nonsense.
His defensive armour is found in the fetid effluvium which, by a muscular exertion, he is capable of ejecting upon his pursuer.
The whole atmosphere of the islet, as well as a large circle around it, was impregnated with the fearful effluvium.
Its effluvium offended only one sense, affected only one set of sensation nerves.
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