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A bioweapon is a weapon made from bacteria, viruses, or toxins that come from living things, used to make a lot of people (or animals, or crops) sick or dead. Anthrax as a weapon would be this. It is a military and news word. Though actually people, and Taiwan news especially, often say “chemical and biological weapons” in one breath, or just 生化武器, even when they only mean the living- kind. A chemical weapon is a poison cooked in a factory, like sarin. A bioweapon is (or comes from) something that can live and spread. That difference matters, even when headlines blur it. Bioweapon and biological weapon mean the same; the shorter form is newer and a bit more headline-like. Having a dangerous in a lab is not, by itself, a bioweapon — it becomes one when it is made and meant to be used that way.
生物武器；新聞常籠統說「生化武器」（把生物和化學混在一起）
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bioweaponnoun/ˈbaɪ.əʊˌwɛ.pən/
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Any weapon designed to be used in biological warfare.
- And (Wouter) Basson (who had worked on South Africa's clandestine bioweapons program) was there, too.
- “Hey, Rick.” “Oh, hey, kiddo. How's your Saturday?” “You know, super chill. W-W-Whatcha doin'?” “Eh, nothing adventurous. You know that race of Underground Dwelling Cannibal Horse People that we're always fighting?” “Yeah, the CHUDs. W-W-What about 'em? “Well, don't tell anybody, but I'm working on a bioweapon to use against them, so I got this barrel of horse semen from your mom's hospital and I'm just gonna, you know, subject it to some otherworldly forces.”
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。