农民种植这类玉米,用除草剂喷洒植物后,除玉米外,其他植物全部被杀死。
这使得农民可以放心使用这种除草剂,节省了大量费用。
这些甜菜都有一些产生于实验室中的新的基因,这可使它们抵抗除草剂的损害。
1·With repeated applications of weedkiller, the weeds were overcome.
反复的施除草剂后,杂草终于被消灭了。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Aminotriazole is a weedkiller found to cause cancer in laboratory animals.
氨三唑是一种除草剂,在实验动物身上发现会导致癌症。
3·For some reason nobody gave much of a thought to Seaman White, who was already halfway to Indonesia on a tramp steamer piled high with rusting metal barrels of a particularly toxic weedkiller.
不知什么原因,没有人想到海员怀特,他已经乘上一只不定线航的船去印度尼西亚了,船估计已经在半途中了,船上堆满了装着生了锈的金属桶,桶里装着剧毒的除草剂。
4·And he was in the fish, and in the air, and in the barrels of weedkiller.
他在空气中。 他在除草剂桶中。