Antiseptic
[æntɪ'septɪk] or [,æntɪ'sɛptɪk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues.
(adj.) devoid of objectionable language; 'lyrics as antiseptic as Sunday School' .
(adj.) clean and honest; 'antiseptic financial practices' .
(adj.) thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms; 'doctors in antiseptic green coats'; 'the antiseptic effect of alcohol'; 'it is said that marjoram has antiseptic qualities' .
(adj.) freeing from error or corruption; 'the antiseptic effect of sturdy criticism' .
校對:莱斯利--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Alt. of Antiseptical
(n.) A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.
整理:瓦莱丽
解釋/意思:
adj. and n. counteracting putrefaction and analogous fermentive changes: preventing moral decay.—adv. Antisept′ically.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Like considerations would apply to railways, antiseptic surgery, or friction matches. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The antiseptic treatment of wounds, by which the long and exhausting suppuration is avoided, is among the most notable of the latter. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Out of the knowledge of disease germs has grown the great era of antiseptic surgery, inaugurated by Sir Joseph Lister, about 1865. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- They understood the virtue of extreme dryness in the exercise of their antiseptic art. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
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