Pernicious

(a.) Quick; swift (to burn).

(a.) Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.

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• And even though the pernicious drug craving is not created, considerable harm is done to the child, because its body is left weak and non-resistant to diseases of infancy and childhood. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Despite that pernicious assumption of lassitude and indifference, which had become his second nature, he was strongly attached to his friend. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• My dear, romances are pernicious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• All the other passions, besides this of interest, are either easily restrained, or are not of such pernicious consequence, when indulged. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The law, however, which obliged the farmer to exercise the trade of a corn merchant was by far the most pernicious of the two. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But though the whole debt were owing to the inhabitants of the country, it would not, upon that account, be less pernicious. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Catarrh is a very prevalent disease in America, and consequently numerous catarrh remedies have been devised, most of which contain in a disguised form the pernicious drug, cocaine. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

校对:马特