Contaminated water is made safe by boiling for a few minutes, because the strong heat destroys the disease-producing germs. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
Chloride of lime when exposed to the air and moisture slowly gives off chlorine, and can be used as a disinfectant because the gas thus set free attacks germs and destroys them. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
This evidently destroys the precedent reasoning concerning the cause of thought or perception. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
Every day, uncontrolled fire wipes out human lives and destroys vast amounts of property; every day, fire, controlled and regulated in stove and furnace, cooks our food and warms our houses. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
But of course the wooden seat is wrong--it destroys the perfect lightness and unity in tension the cane gave. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
The removal of either of these destroys the passion; which evidently proves that the cause Is a compounded one. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
I could have been--but this nasty Lady W---- destroys half my illusion. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
The lime destroys the color, and the color has an effect on the whitewash which makes it crack and peel. 威廉K.戴维.智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
The heat of boiling destroys animal and vegetable germs. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
But to let an innocent man be ruined; to keep a secret which destroys his character for life--Oh, good God, it's too horrible! 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
The oxygen in turn attacks the coloring matter and destroys it. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
A separation of the active doing phase from the passive undergoing phase destroys the vital meaning of an experience. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
We indiscriminately employ children of different bents on the same exercises; their education destroys the special bent and leaves a dull uniformity. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
At her time of life, any thing of an illness destroys the bloom for ever! 简·奥斯汀.理智与情感.
A bad earthquake destroys our oldest associations; the earth, the very emblem of solidity, has moved beneath our feet like a thin crust over a flui d. 李贝.西洋科学史.
But none of these destroy the soul in the same sense that disease destroys the body. 柏拉图.理想国.
It is another thing which destroys him. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
The chlorine thus set free reacts with the water and liberates oxygen; this in turn destroys the coloring matter in the fibers, and transforms the material into a bleached product. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
The engrossing of land, in effect, destroys this plenty and cheapness. 亚当·斯密.国富论.