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N-MASS
毒物；毒藥；毒素
Poison is a substance that harms or kills people or animals if they swallow it or absorb it.
例句
Poison from the weaver fish causes paralysis, swelling, and nausea...
龍的毒素會引起癱瘓、腫脹和惡心。
Mercury is a known poison.
水銀是一種已知的有毒物質。
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VERB
（人）使中毒，毒殺，毒害
If someone poisons another person, they kill the person or make them ill by giving them poison.
例句
The rumours that she had poisoned him could never be proved.
她曾下毒害他的謠言永遠都無法得到證實。
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VERB
（物質）使中毒，毒死
If you are poisoned by a substance, it makes you very ill and sometimes kills you.
例句
Employees were taken to hospital yesterday after being poisoned by fumes...
因吸入有害氣體而中毒的員工昨天被送進了醫院。
Toxic waste could endanger lives and poison fish.
有毒廢物可能危及生命，毒死魚類。
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VERB
在…中放毒；在…上涂毒
If someone poisons a food, drink, or weapon, they add poison to it so that it can be used to kill someone.
例句
If I was your wife I would poison your coffee.
如果我是你老婆，我會在你的咖啡里下毒。
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VERB
破壞，污染（水、空氣或土地）
To poison water, air, or land means to damage it with harmful substances such as chemicals.
例句
...the textile and fibre industries that taint the air, poison the water and use vast amounts of natural resources...
污染空氣、破壞水源并消耗大量自然資源的紡織纖維工業
The land has been completely poisoned by chemicals.
土地已被化學品徹底污染。
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VERB
危害；敗壞；毒化
Something that poisons a good situation or relationship spoils it or destroys it.
例句
The whole atmosphere has really been poisoned.
整個氣氛已全然遭到破壞。
...ill-feeling that will poison further talk of a common foreign policy.
將會危害有關共同外交政策的進一步商討的敵意
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PHRASE
（通常指以謊言）使（對…）產生惡感，使（對…）心懷仇視
If someone poisons your mind against another person, they make you dislike that person, usually by telling you things that are not true.