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 pesticide ['pestisaid]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 杀虫剂

[化] 农药

[医] 除害[物]剂, 杀虫剂, 农药(杀灭昆虫、啮齿动物、真菌、莠草等的药品)




    pesticide
    [ noun ]
    a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects)
    <noun.substance>


    1. After reports earlier this year linked the apple pesticide Alar to cancer risks in children, supermarkets had to act "to head off a flap," he says.
    2. The pesticide, in wide agricultural use in the 1950s and 1960s, built up in the food chain killing many wild birds. Environmentalists hailed the recovery as a triumph for the 1973 Endangered Species Act, now before Congress for re-authorisation.
    3. The temporary cancellation of licenses for use of above-ground strychnine halts that product's use, but allows the pesticide to be used below ground.
    4. For example, pesticide savings were only $6.74 per acre in the North Carolina piedmont, but were $24.97 per acre in the South Carolina piedmont.
    5. Last week, the U.S. General Accounting Office underscored concerns by charging that the lawn-care industry exaggerates pesticide safety.
    6. The government decided March 5 to pay interim compensation to the victims of the gas leak at the Union Carbide Corp.'s Bhopal pesticide plant pending the outcome of legal battles with the U.S.-based multinational.
    7. Nearby pesticide spraying and runoff, waste water discharges and planned real estate development are the major threats.
    8. The first major revision of the nation's pesticide control law in a decade is headed for President Reagan's desk with praise from lawmakers and lukewarm support from environmentalists.
    9. Of 60,000 shipments of Canadian food grains and fish a year, the agency takes only 40 samples for pesticide testing.
    10. The House passed a slimmed-down pesticide bill that would require the Environmental Protection Agency to re-examine more than 600 ingredients used in pesticides for health and environmental effects.
    11. "I'd rather eat more insects and less pesticide residue," he said.
    12. A coalition of agricultural groups Thursday unveiled a proposed 59-page "wholesome food" initiative that would double the amount of food tested by the state for pesticide residues.
    13. The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it plans to forbid use of granular carbofuran, a pesticide used mostly to protect corn and sorghum from worms and insects, because it is killing too many birds.
    14. He said his department is developing a ground water pollution control strategy that would include pesticide regulations.
    15. If it orders a ban, the manufacturer and other holders of federal pesticide licenses may pursue administrative appeals.
    16. It is composed of oils, grease, other petroleum byproducts, solvents and toxic metals, and it is saturated with several organic compounds and a termite pesticide in concentrations far above the EPA's drinking water standard.
    17. Through the United Nations, efforts are under way to develop an international system of pesticide information exchange and export notification, said Synar.
    18. As it proposed to do before Congress stepped in, EPA said it is restricting sale of the paints to applicators certified under state pesticide programs.
    19. In a news conference today, four food-industry trade associations are expected to criticize the pesticide project for needlessly alarming consumers.
    20. Under the compromise, a new nine-member Agricultural Resources Protection Authority would set all policies and regulations on pesticide use.
    21. American Agriculture Movement and the National Farmers Union officials on hand praised the coalition's stress on restricting the supply of farm crops _ and thus raising farm prices _ as a prelude to scaling back pesticide use.
    22. About 10,000 people had sued Olin Corp. in the early 1980s for diseases allegedly caused by the chemical maker's dumping of the pesticide into a Tennessee River tributary.
    23. It said the benefit estimates are incomplete because neither the benefits associated with swimming and commercial fishing nor those from reduced pesticide use were taken into account.
    24. Fire department personnel calculated that seven drops to one teaspoonful of the pesticide would kill a 150-pound person.
    25. Backers saw the "community right to know" provisions as a response to the Bhopal, India, disaster in 1984 in which about 3,000 people were killed by an escaping cloud of methyl isocyanate, a pesticide raw material.
    26. A bare-bones pesticide bill won approval last month but even supporters of the measure say more needs to be done in the next Congress.
    27. Using more pesticide will only prolong the time it takes beneficial bugs to return and could burn leaves.
    28. Five years after a plague of locusts hit Africa, a congressional report says it's still unclear whether the plague was stopped by a four-year, $275 million international pesticide attack or just by the weather.
    29. A federal judge has given the Environmental Protection Agency until April 15 to ban the sale and commercial use of products containing an anti-termite pesticide believed to cause cancer.
    30. A federal appeals court Friday upheld the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to make agreements with pesticide manufacturers permitting inventories to be used up after federal pesticide licenses are cancelled.
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