noxious: [17] Noxious was adapted from Latin noxius ‘harmful’, a derivative of noxa ‘damage, injury’. (An earlier borrowing was obnoxious [16], from Latin obnoxius, which contains the prefix ob- ‘to’.) Related to noxa were Latin nex ‘destruction, death, slaughter’ (source of English internecine and pernicious) and nocēre ‘injure’ (source of English innocent, innocuous, and nuisance). => innocent, innocuous, internecine, nuisance, obnoxious, pernicious
noxious (adj.)
c. 1500, from Latin noxius "hurtful, injurious," from noxa "injury, hurt, damage entailing liability" (related to nocere "to hurt," and to nex "slaughter"), from PIE *nek-ro-, causative form of root *nek- (1) "death" (see necro-).
雙語例句
1. Their behaviour was noxious.
他們的行為令人生厭。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Heavy industry pollutes our rivers with noxious chemicals.
重工業產生的有毒化學品會污染我們的河流。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Noxious gases had built up in the sewer.
下水道的有害氣體越積越多.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. Heavy industry pollutes our rivers with noxious chemicals.
重工業產生的有毒化學品會污染我們的河流。
來自辭典例句
5. Many household products give off noxious fumes.