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单词 miasma
释义
miasma
noun[C]
literary
uk
/miˈæz.mə/us
/miˈæz.mə/

miasmanoun[C](FOG)

anunpleasantfogthatsmellsbad:
臭气，瘴气
A miasmaofpollutionhungin theairabove Mexico City.污染形成的瘴气弥漫在墨西哥城的上空。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Precipitation: clouds, dew, fog & steam
  • billow
  • brume
  • chemtrail
  • cirrocumulus
  • cirrus
  • condensate
  • contrail
  • cumulonimbus
  • foggy
  • haze
  • haze over
  • lowering
  • mist
  • moisture
  • nimbus
  • overcast
  • pea-souper
  • steaming
  • vapour trail
  • whiteout
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miasmanoun[C](UNPLEASANT FEELING)

a veryunpleasantgeneralfeelingorcharacterof asituationorplace:
不良气氛
After helosthisjob, hesankinto a miasmaofpovertyanddespair.失业后，他渐渐陷入贫困与绝望之中。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
  • a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
  • abyss
  • adversity
  • atyourworstidiom
  • Augean
  • bad hair day
  • emergence
  • epidemic
  • genie
  • half nelson
  • hardness
  • have a bumpy rideidiom
  • quicksand
  • rabbit hole
  • reversal
  • rigour
  • rollercoaster
  • the Augean Stablesidiom
  • the hard wayidiom
  • vortex
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(Definition ofmiasmafrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmiasma

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There was amiasmaof misunderstanding then, and there is a similarmiasmaof misunderstanding today about our present position.
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In cases such as that, amiasmaof perceived guilt will attach to the accused.
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Amendments were either not moved or were withdrawn on that basis under what appears to have been an inevitablemiasmaof confusion.
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We are in a sort ofmiasma, a fog.
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By whatmiasmaof the mind is it regarded as a proper fine today?
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Is there to be more mystification and dressing up of economic facts in amiasmaof words?
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My statement was that this clause is amiasmaof foggy verbiage, because the phraseology is loose and inaccurate.
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He is in a sort ofmiasmato know at all times how he is getting it.
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More and more would contract out if the right to do so was not so wrapped in amiasmaof obscurity.
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What few new lettings exist are obscured by amiasmaof confidentiality clauses concealing the real market rent.
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Instead of that, what we have experienced is amiasmaof disparagement over those years.
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A land fit for heroes has become a meremiasma; and the two millions who are disabled are forgotten.
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Themiasmathat surrounds the question of trade union representation of bank and insurance employees must be dissipated.
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What is the thing that spreads itself like a dreadmiasmathroughout the lives of our people—want, poverty, unemployment, machinery standing idle, commodities being destroyed?
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He left us in a completemiasmaand muddle of arithmetical calculations.
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