a poisoner
A poisoner was arrested last night.
一名投毒者昨晚被捕。
投毒者;下毒者;毒杀者
poisoners — plural of poisoner
先理解核心含义,再看它在真实句子里的用法。
投毒者;下毒者;毒杀者
a person who kills someone with poison
A poisoner was arrested last night.
一名投毒者昨晚被捕。
毒害某人或某物的人
A person who poisons something or someone.
The police finally caught the poisoner who had put poison in the town's water tank.
警方终于抓住了那个在镇上水塔里下毒的投毒者。
In the novel, the poisoner is a quiet old woman who kills her husband with arsenic.
小说里,那个投毒者是个安静的老妇人,她用砒霜毒死了丈夫。
The detective realized the poisoner must have had access to the victim's kitchen.
侦探意识到,投毒者一定有机会进入受害者的厨房。
A poisoner was arrested last night.
一名投毒者昨晚被捕。
The poisoner who used cyanide escaped.
那个使用氰化物的投毒者逃走了。
Not this
This is a poisoner mushroom.
Use this
This is a poisonous mushroom.
poisoner 是名词,指“投毒者(人)”;表示“有毒的”应用形容词 poisonous。此处修饰 mushroom 需要形容词,不能用表示人的名词。
Not this
She ate a poisoner apple.
Use this
She ate a poisoned apple.
poisoner 是施动者名词,指“下毒的人”,而修饰“被下了毒的”苹果要用过去分词形容词 poisoned。后缀 -er 表示“做…的人”,-ed 表示“被…的”。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
已被定罪的投毒者
The convicted poisoner was sentenced to life in prison.
已被定罪的投毒者被判处无期徒刑。
涉嫌投毒者
The alleged poisoner denied all charges.
这名涉嫌投毒者否认了所有指控。
连环投毒者
The serial poisoner targeted elderly relatives for insurance money.
这名连环投毒者为骗取保险金,将目标锁定在年长亲属身上。
臭名昭著的投毒者
The notorious poisoner became the subject of many books.
这名臭名昭著的投毒者成了许多书的题材。
涉嫌投毒的嫌疑人
Police arrested the suspected poisoner at the hospital.
警方在医院逮捕了涉嫌投毒的嫌疑人。
Use poisoners naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
联想 poison(毒药)加后缀 -er(表示人):把毒药给他人的人,就是投毒者。
语域:neutral 常见场景:新闻报道、法律语境、历史叙述 poisoner 是比较中性的名词,通常指实施投毒行为的人,多用于新闻报道、法律或历史讨论中,口语中较少使用。
没有常用词与 poisoner 完全押韵。reasoner 以 /zənə(r)/ 结尾,与 poisoner 的尾音相同,但重读元音不同;poison 是 poisoner 的词干,对应拼写和读音;prisoner、coroner 以 -oner 结尾但读音差别较大(/ˈprɪzənə(r)/、/ˈkɒrənə(r)/),不能按拼写类推;noisy 的 oi 与 poisoner 的 oi 拼写相同,可帮助记忆首音节。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.