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Non-toxic means not poisonous — it should not harm your body in the ordinary way people worry about. You see it on toys, paint, markers, cleaning products, and garden stuff: the label is telling buyers, often parents, that this should be safe to have around.
Non-toxic Non-toxic means是 not poisonous不是有毒的意思——it should not harm your body in the ordinary way people worry about意思是不會用大家擔心的那種一般方式傷害身體。You see it你會看到 on toys, paint, markers, cleaning products, and garden stuff出現在玩具、油漆、彩色筆、清潔用品、園藝用品上:the label is telling buyers, often parents標籤是在告訴買的人,通常是家長,that this should be safe to have around說這東西放在身邊應該是安全的。
Though actually, the tidy picture (“not a poison”) is tidier than real labels. Non-toxic often means “not toxic in the dose and use they tested,” not “eat this” or “breathe this all day with no problem.” A plant can be non-toxic to people and still be a bad idea for a pet, and the other way round.
Though actually不過其實,the tidy picture ("not a poison")「不是毒藥」這種簡單的說法 is tidier than real labels比真實的標籤還要簡化。Non-toxic often means Non-toxic常常是指 "not toxic in the dose and use they tested,"「在他們測試的劑量和用法下不會有毒」,not "eat this" or "breathe this all day with no problem."不是「可以吃」或「整天呼吸也沒事」。A plant can be non-toxic to people一個植物對人可以是non-toxic and still be a bad idea for a pet但對寵物來說還是不好的選擇,and the other way round反過來也一樣。
In looser talk, especially online, toxic has also come to mean “a person or place that poisons your mood,” so non-toxic sometimes gets borrowed for “not nasty, not full of drama.” That is a stretch from the chemistry meaning, and not everyone likes it.
In looser talk, especially online在比較鬆散的用法裡,尤其網路上,toxic has also come to mean toxic也漸漸有了 "a person or place that poisons your mood,"「會毒害你心情的人或地方」的意思,so所以 non-toxic sometimes gets borrowed for non-toxic有時候被借用來表示 "not nasty, not full of drama."「不機車、沒有一堆戲」。That is a stretch from the chemistry meaning這是從化學意義延伸出去的用法,and而且 not everyone likes it不是每個人都喜歡這樣用。
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
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。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。