innocuous
innocuous 英 [ɪˈnɒkjuəs] 美 [ɪˈnɑkjuəs]
adj. 无害的；无伤大雅的
- Something that's innocuous isn't harmful or likely to cause injury. Public figures like mayors and governors have to expect they'll get critical or even hurtful emails and phone calls, as well as more innocuous feedback.
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- adj. 无害的；无伤大雅的
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1. Sometimes it overreacts to what should be a perfectly innocuous food or other substance, causing an allergic reaction.
有时，它会对某种完全无害的食物或其它物质产生过度反应，导致过敏反应。
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2. Humans, like rats, can be trained in alaboratory to fear an innocuous stimulus—a sound or a color—by pairingit with a shock.
人类如同白鼠一样都可以在实验室里训练至害怕一种无害的刺激——一种声音或者颜色——同时给予电击即可。
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3. To get him to see me less professionally, I would pepper in innocuous personal questions, asking about his weekend or what he had for lunch.
为了让他不单纯以同事眼光看我，我会时不时问些无伤大雅的私人问题，像他周末怎么过的，他中午吃什么。
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