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-).
双语例句
1. Their behaviour was noxious.
他们的行为令人生厌。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Heavy industry pollutes our rivers with noxious chemicals.
重工业产生的有毒化学品会污染我们的河流。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Noxious gases had built up in the sewer.
下水道的有害气体越积越多.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. Heavy industry pollutes our rivers with noxious chemicals.
重工业产生的有毒化学品会污染我们的河流。
来自辞典例句
5. Many household products give off noxious fumes.
