miasmatic
/mahy-az-muh, mee-/US // maɪˈæz mə, mi- //UK // (mɪˈæzmə) //
瘴气,瘴气的,瘴气的人,混杂物
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n.名词 noun
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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
Yet it kept off some of the chill night air, and the miasmatic breath of that “dismal swamp.”
Trees were thrown down, and lie rotting in the black and miasmatic water.
Diarrhea, typhoid fever, and other miasmatic maladies, became almost universal.
Their course now lay for many leagues through a low country, abounding in lakes, and miasmatic marshes, and sluggish rivers.
The air was damp, oppressive and miasmatic, probably because of the rank vegetation that grew everywhere.
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