Miasma

 











miasma



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沼氣,臭氣



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–noun

1. noxious exhalations from putrescent (腐爛的) organic matter; poisonous effluvia (臭氣) or germs polluting the atmosphere.

2. a dangerous, foreboding (不祥預感), or deathlike influence or atmosphere. 





 　

But then a funny thing happened. Gallo went back into the editing room and cut 26 minutes of his 118-minute film, or almost a fourth of the running time. And in the process he transformed it. The film's form and purpose now [emerge] from the miasma of the original cut, and are quietly, sadly, effective. It is said that editing is the soul of the cinema; in the case of "The Brown Bunny," it is its salvation.





rancid

as through decomposition, esp. of fats or oils

rancid [butter]

obnoxious

noxious

noxious [fumes] 

a noxious plan to spread [dis]sension.

pernicious

nocuous

delectable deleterious

inimical

Her opinions are inimical [to] our proposal. 

that the Amazon was truly inimical [to] humankind. 

Detest