miasma: 意味と定義

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miasmaとは何ですか?

  • A noxious atmosphere or influence: "The family affection, the family expectations, seemed to permeate the atmosphere . . . like a coiling miasma” ( Louis Auchincloss).
  • A poisonous atmosphere formerly thought to rise from swamps and putrid matter and cause disease.
  • A thick vaporous atmosphere or emanation: wreathed in a miasma of cigarette smoke.