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a substance that causes death or harm if it gets into the body 毒物;毒药;毒素 Some mushrooms contain a deadly poison. 有些蘑菇含有致命毒素。 How did he die? Was it poison? 他是怎么死的?是中毒吗? The dog was killed by rat poison (= poison intended to kill rats). 狗被耗子药毒死了。 to hunt with poison arrows 用毒箭狩猎 bombs containing poison gas 毒气弹 She had laced his drink with poison. 她在他的饮料中掺了毒药。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- potent
- powerful
- strong
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- trace
- administer
- give somebody
- inject
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- gas
- pill
- arrow
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an idea, a feeling, etc. that is extremely harmful 极有害的思想(或心情等);精神毒药 the poison of racial hatred 种族仇恨这种害人的思想
Extra ExamplesThese words were pure poison to me. 这些话对我有害无益。 groups that are spreading the poison of sectarianism 传播宗派主义毒素的团体
Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a harmful medicinal draught): from Old French poison ‘magic potion’, from Latin potio(n-) ‘potion’, related to potare ‘to drink’.
Idioms
one man’s meat is another man’s poison
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used to say that different people like different things; what one person likes very much, another person does not like at all 兴趣爱好因人而异;一人手中宝,他人脚下草
what’s your poison?
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used to ask somebody what alcoholic drink they would like (用于问别人想喝什么酒)