Excrescence

(noun.) (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body.

编辑:鲁弗斯

• While we stood looking, a wart, or an excrescence of some kind, appeared on the jaw of the Sphynx. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Tammany is not a freak, a strange and monstrous excrescence. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• My person, with its human powers and features, seem to me a monstrous excrescence of nature. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• For, it inscrutably appeared to stand to reason, in the minds of the whole company, that I was an excrescence on the entertainment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• So close was this resemblance, that a native Dyak maintained that the foliaceous excrescences were really moss. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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