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Перевод: noxious

[прилагательное]
вредный; пагубный; ядовитый

Тезаурус:

1. Consequently, in order to diminish any noxious or injurious effects a local authority can make byelaws under s.108(2) of the 1936 Act which may lay down specific standards and ensure good housekeeping practice.
2. This is an area where a diesel car scores very well and as it uses less fuel than a petrol car, it emits less noxious gas.
3. In his book Defence in Animals , Malcolm Edmunds cites the African grasshopper Phymateus which relies upon camouflage for primary defence but produces a dramatic warning display once a predator approaches, opening its orange and crimson hind wings and exuding a noxious fluid.
4. Possibly more terrifying than the prospect of being run through with poisoned weapons, gassed by noxious organic exhalations from embalmed bodies, or turning black with anthrax, is the very real prospect of an object disintegrating in (or falling from) one's hands.
5. Rocketing unemployment figures following the recession of 1980-;81; mounting crime rate; lengthening hospital queues; crumbling school fabric and obsolescent textbooks brewed a noxious mixture of political complaint.
6. Basically any report on Eastern Europe's problems comes down to much the same things: a heavy reliance on smokestack industries burning brown coal (also known as lignite) and pouring out uncontrolled noxious fumes, factories tipping their chemical wastes straight into rivers, and untreated sewage.
7. Products which are capable of sterilising are either so noxious or corrosive in the concentration required that they cannot be used.
8. During the 1980s, the British tended to buy bigger, high fuel-consumption cars, so increased taxes on petrol (favoured by Patten) would be an obvious way of driving them towards smaller, more economical cars with fewer noxious emissions.
9. As the first set of declaration reports were produced, it became apparent that development within the zones would not be significantly different from what would have occurred anyway (Corby District Council, 1981; Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981; Swansea City Council, 1981): planning controls were often retained along zone boundaries; Special Industrial Uses, including noxious and dangerous processes, were still subject to control; and, on occasion, environmental improvements were written into declaration reports.
10. Nine pupils and two teachers were treated in hospital after being overcome by noxious fumes in a classroom at Lancaster Boys' School, Leicester.
11. In hard hats and protective glasses, we walked past the huge "fume cupboard" where the most noxious barrels are opened, and arrived at the vast, closed mouth of the furnace itself.
12. Section 23 penalizes the intentional or reckless administration of any poison or noxious thing which results in danger to the victim's life or grievous bodily harm (maximum sentence of ten years' imprisonment).
13. Not just the fun of zapping Space Invaders, or defending the Earth from noxious aliens, but the fun of challenging the computer to brain puzzlers.