| 词组 | noisome |
| 释义 | noisome While almost all English usage books find a need to caution against confusing noisome with noisy, our citation files show that noisome is almost always used to mean "noxious" or "disgusting": • It [wine] has now become a noisome sulphur-and-vinegar compound —Norman Douglas, Siren Land, 1911 • Sol Levy had come over an immigrant in the noisome bowels of some dreadful ship —Edna Ferber, Cimarron, 1929 • ... is zoned against livestock, partly owing to the fact that noisome pig farms once existed there — Christopher Rand, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 1964 • This morning's coffee shop is this afternoon's noisome, grease-spewing alfresco sandwich stand — Alexander Cohen, N.Y. Times, 13 Aug. 1972 A few citations in our files show noisome with extended meaning: • Miss KarmeFs debut is not of the noisome type with which so many "promising" writers enter upon— and usually depart from—the literary scene —Martin Rice, Saturday Rev., 9 May 1953 • The reception of Charles Osborne's life of W. H. Auden and Ted Morgan's Somerset Maugham was predictably noisome —Richard Holmes, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 29 June 1980 On the other hand, we have some evidence for noise-some, meaning "noisy," but so far not enough to warrant entry of this sense in the dictionary. • ... the suggestion that modern mothers ... quieten their noisesome offspring by filling them up with chlorodyne —Times Literary Supp., 5 Jan. 1967 • ... our own necessarily noisesome and laborious progress through the thick bamboo forest —A. B. Anderson, African Wild Life, December 1950 |
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