adverse

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ad·verse /ˈædvɜːs $ -ɜːrs/ adjectiveadj

1 HELPnot good or favourable 不利的，有害的，反面的

They fear it could have an adverse effect on global financial markets.

他們擔心這會對全球金融市場産生不利影響。

Miller’s campaign has received a good deal of adverse publicity.

米勒的競選活動招來許多負面報道。

2 adverse conditions DIFFICULTconditions that make it difficult for something to happen or exist 不利條件

The expedition was abandoned because of adverse weather conditions.

由於天氣惡劣，探險活動中止了。

Examples from the Corpus

adverse conditions• As such, it can be seen as an adaptive defence response to adverse conditions.• In order to strike the best possible bargain on setting-day the men might invent stories of difficulty and adverse conditions.• If adverse conditions are forecast - take note.• He praised the soldiers for overcoming adverse conditions, including less-than-gourmet food and less-than-plush accommodations.• Extensive field research can mean long periods living under adverse conditions to which the researcher is unaccustomed.

—adversely adverbadv

developments which had adversely affected their business

對他們的生意産生不利影響的事態發展

Examples from the Corpus

adverse• The Labour Government was haunted constantly by economic difficulties, largely caused by an adverse balance of payments.• Many observers suggest that this transfer has had mainly adverse effects on the population concerned.• Climate change is likely to have adverse impacts on human health.• Other people can also help by noting the more subtle effects, both beneficial and adverse, of treatment.• Instead, the number of adverse outcomes is plotted against the total number of cases on a graph.• In spite of adverse public opinion, the plan to privatize the railways continued.• adverse publicity• Appler also said some reports of adverse reactions to Ma huang are unsubstantiated.• However, both have weathered storms before and are used to surviving in adverse times.• Planes are being kept on the ground because of the adverse weather.

adverse effect• There is little adverse effect from the light sprinkling of typographical errors.• We have recently shown in rat pancreas that adverse effects include pancreatic toxicity.• Anti-abortion groups have seized upon the few that have shown an adverse effect, not the many that have not.• The move follows a government-commissioned report, which warns that the taxes are having an adverse effect on industrial production.• In one, no adverse effects on neonatal outcome were found.• Other studies that were not randomised failed to show adverse effects on the baby.• Out findings of an apparently greater adverse effect on trabecular rather than cortical bone is in keeping with other publications on the effect of prednisolone.

Origin adverse

(1300-1400) Early French advers, from Latin adversus, past participle of advertere; → ADVERT

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