Much is said of their fondness for fruit blossoms and tree buds, but the truth is that noxious insects and seeds of grain constitute their food in summer, the berries of evergreens in winter. To a bird so gay of color, charming of voice, social, and trustful of disposition, surely a few blossoms might be spared without grudging.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
He adds, "It is a disagreeable declaration for me to mention, that I myself was the means of carrying the infection to a great number of women." He then enumerates a number of instances in which the disease was conveyed by midwives and others to the neighboring villages, and declares that "these facts fully prove that the cause of the puerperal fever, of which I treat, was a specific contagion, or infection, altogether unconnected with a noxious constitution of the atmosphere."英文原著 · 《Medical Essays》
If within a short period two cases of puerperal fever happen close to each other, in the practice of the same physician, the disease not existing or prevailing in the neighborhood, he would do wisely to relinquish his obstetrical practice for at least one month, and endeavor to free himself by every available means from any noxious influence he may carry about with him.英文原著 · 《Medical Essays》
Medicine, in distinction from food, is every unnatural or noxious agent applied for the relief of disease.英文原著 · 《Medical Essays》
The next proposition I would ask you to consider is this: The presumption always is that every noxious agent, including medicines proper, which hurts a well man, hurts a sick one. [ Note B.]英文原著 · 《Medical Essays》
All noxious agents, all appliances which are not natural food or stimuli, all medicines proper, cost a patient, on the average, five per cent. of his vital force, let us say. Twenty times as much waste of force produced by any of them, that is, would exactly kill him, nothing less than kill him, and nothing more. If this, or something like this, is true, then all these medications are, prima facie, injurious.英文原著 · 《Medical Essays》
Produces noxious fumes that ruin the whole enterprise.美剧 · 《Billions》
...and until recently I had no idea That despite his lactose intolerance, He can tolerate small amounts of non-fat ice cream Without producing a noxious gas that I maintain, In the right concentration, could be weaponize Leonard might come home.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
Well, we'll just see how your noxious gas Fares against my cinnamon-apple-scented aroma therapy candles.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
The trigeminal nerve reacts to rapid temperature change in the mouth, sending a signal to the brain, which responds with changes in blood flow and dura irritation, which combats what it perceives as a dangerous, noxious stimuli, but is just ice cream.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》