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a. 无害的, 无伤大雅的

[医] 无害的, 良性的




    innocuous
    [ adj ]
    1. not injurious to physical or mental health

    2. <adj.all>
    3. not causing disapproval

    4. <adj.all>
      it was an innocuous remark
      confined himself to innocuous generalities
      unobjectionable behavior
    5. lacking intent or capacity to injure

    6. <adj.all>
      an innocent prank


    Innocuous \In*noc"u*ous\, a. [L. innocuus; in- not + nocuus
    hurtful, fr. nocere to hurt. See {Innocent}.]
    Harmless; producing no ill effect.

    A patient, innocuous, innocent man. --Burton.
    -- {In*noc"u*ous*ly}, adv. -- {In*noc"u*ous*ness}, n.

    Where the salt sea innocuously breaks. --Wordsworth.

    1. Then prosecutors asked what seemed an innocuous question: Why did he leave Princeton-Newport?
    2. Helmets are absolutely necessary for children on bicycles, a consumer safety group said Wednesday, while warning that seemingly innocuous toys like balloons and water slides can pose serious dangers.
    3. Most of the slop becomes innocuous in a short time, but iodine 129 has a half-life of 16 million years, and technetium 99 will lose half its potency in 212,000 years.
    4. "It must be the old chemicals that were used in reprocessing," he said. "The chemicals they use (now) are relatively innocuous." He said toxic chemicals were used in reprocessing in the past, and some may have been stored at the site.
    5. The corporate raider from Dallas has insisted time and again that his accumulation of Lockheed shares is innocuous.
    6. It happens with some of the smallest and most innocuous products.
    7. One of the more telling admissions came in a seemingly innocuous detail about his life in the Lompoc federal prison camp, where he spent two years.
    8. Moreover, Afghanistan is 90% Sunni, and Sunni clerics traditionally behave more like friendly and innocuous village priests than like politically motivated Iranian Shiite mullahs.
    9. He asserted once more that what was found on them was nothing but the "innocuous excrement of honeybees."
    10. If that sounds innocuous, you may be sure it isn't.
    11. The simple, catchy, innocuous little tunes of Scarlatti and Caccini, Cesti and Caldara could be on countless pairs of lips as Cecilia Bartoli's popularity grows ever wider. Anybody who frequents vocal recitals knows these songs.
    12. Stretching this sphere of responsibility, innocuous and well-meaning as that may seem, will eventually backfire and weaken the boss's ability to discharge his or her real duties.
    13. Any activity deemed suspicious often resulted in the creation of a secret file with detailed documentation of even an individual's most innocuous activities.
    14. Opponents of a planned exhibit of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe say most of the pictures are innocuous, even beautiful, but that nine of the sexually explicit photos are unacceptable for Cincinnati.
    15. And microstates sounding off in the General Assembly are innocuous compared to the cruel violence wrought across the Third World by the rage for self-determination among peoples living under the same sovereignty.
    16. Some of the payment may relate to the resolution of a relatively innocuous dispute over a maintenance contract.
    17. If his hosts expected something innocuous, they were mistaken.
    18. Individually, many of these programs might seem innocuous, and thus escape criticism, but when they proliferate the costs do, too.
    19. One evening we stopped at what looked, from the road, an innocuous spot near a river.
    20. But that seemingly innocuous little word can be a land mine for advertisers.
    21. That may sound innocuous, but it can discourage outside buyers, effectively preventing investors from selling to anyone but the general partner.
    22. Director Charles Shyer is content to keep things as maudlin and innocuous as possible, stringing together a series of tired jokes and emotional cliches.
    23. Dreaming of the future as their train trundles past innocuous fields towards an impending doom, there are already uneasy parallels with the transportation of Jews to the death camps.
    24. And sometimes seemingly innocuous products have military uses.
    25. "Some of (the haunted houses) are innocuous.
    26. On any given day, its stock price could change for a number of innocuous reasons, ranging from an analyst's earnings estimate to a stock-buyback rumor.
    27. Gidaspov made an innocuous speech at the outdoor meeting, which was shown on Leningrad TV and later on a nationwide news program, saying mainly that it was time to stop talking about reform and start acting.
    28. A Goldman spokesman said, "We have reviewed the trading in the account with us and it appears entirely innocuous."
    29. "Even the most seemingly innocuous word or image, when viewed through the lens of U.S.-Cuban relations, can convey messages," the agency argued in a motion to dismiss the case.
    30. Not all imitations are quite so innocuous.
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