poison

名词 poison:

1. any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism
   同义词：toxicant, poisonous substance
2. anything that harms or destroys

动词 poison:

1. spoil as if by poison
2. kill by its poison
3. kill with poison
4. add poison to
   同义词：envenom
5. administer poison to

1. Small quantities of poison were detected in the dead man's stomach.
   在死者胃中找到了少量的毒药。
2. Are our children being poisoned by lead in the atmosphere?
   我们的儿童是否受著空气中铅的毒害？
3. The chemical companies are poisoning our rivers with effluent.
   这些化学公司排出废水污染著我们的河流。
4. He tried to kill himself by taking poison.
   他曾试图服毒自杀。
5. Gases from cars are poisoning the air of our cities.
   汽车放出的废气在污染我们城市的空气。
6. Someone tried to poison our dog.
   有人想毒杀我们的狗。

poi.son

n.（名词）
A substance that causes injury, illness, or death, especially by chemical means.
毒物：一种（尤其是通过化学作用）导致受伤、疾病或死亡的物质
Something destructive or fatal.
致命物：某种毁灭性或致命的事物
Chemistry Physics A substance that inhibits another substance or a reaction:
【化学】 【物理学】 抑制剂：抑制别种物质或某一反应的物质：
例句：
a catalyst poison.
催化毒

v.tr.（及物动词）
poi.soned,poi.son.ing,poi.sons
To kill or harm with poison.
用毒害：用毒物杀死或伤害
To put poison on or into:
下毒：将毒药置于上面或里面：
例句：
poisoning arrows; poisoned the drink.
给箭头涂毒；在酒中下毒

To pollute:
污染：
例句：
Noxious fumes poison the air.See Synonyms at contaminate
有害的烟污染了空气参见 contaminate

To have a harmful influence on; corrupt:
损害，造成不良影响：对…具有有害的影响；腐化，使恶化：
例句：
Jealousy poisoned their friendship.
嫉妒损害了他们的友谊

Chemistry Physics To inhibit (a substance or reaction).
【化学】 【物理学】 抑制（一种物质或反应）
adj.（形容词）
Poisonous.
有毒的

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old French
源自 古法语
from Latin pôtiô pôtiôn- [drink] * see pô(i)-
源自 拉丁语 pôtiô pôtiôn- [饮品] *参见 pô(i)-

【引伸】
poi.soner
n.（名词）
<注释>The phrasepoison potion besides being alliterative also consists of doublets, that is, two words that go back ultimately to the same source in another language.The source for both words is Latinpôtiô, which meant .the act of drinking, a drink, or a liquid dose, as of a medicine or poison..Our wordpotion retains the form of the Latin word (actually the form of the stem pôtiôn- ) and the .dose. sense, although it passed through Old French (pocion ) on its way to Middle English ( pocion ), first recorded in a work composed around 300.In Old Frenchpocion is a learned borrowing, one that was deliberately taken from Latin in a form corresponding to the Latin form.But the Latin word had also passed through Vulgar Latin into Old French in the different formpoison. This word meant .beverage,. .liquid dose,. and also .poison beverage, poison..The wordpoison is first recorded in Middle English in a work composed around 200.
Poison potion 这一词组除了押头韵外还是由同源异形词构成的， 也就是两词最终可归结到另一种语言中的同一本源。这两个词的来源都是拉丁词potio , 意为.喝的行为、一种饮品或一定的液体剂量，如药或毒药。.我们今天所使用的potion 保留了这一拉丁词的形式（实际上是词干 potion- 的形式）和.药剂.的意思， 虽然它是经由古法语（pocion ）传入中古英语的（ pocion ）， 该中古英语记录最早见于300年左右著成的一部著作中。在古法语中pocion 是一个学术性的借词， 该词是以一种和其拉丁文形式对应的形式主动从拉丁文中借用的。但这一拉丁词也已经以另一种形式通过俗拉丁语，即poison ，传入古法语。 这个词意为.饮料、..液体剂量.以及.毒性的饮料、毒药。.Poison 这个词最早是在一部大约在200年写成的著作中记进中古英语的。