The contractor was interested in his profits rather than in the health of the rural workers and he was hated like poison by all his employees.

承包商只关心自己的利润而不关心民工的健康，他手下的人都对他恨之入骨。

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Poison dart frogs, like this sapphire-blue species, are highly toxic.

像这种蓝宝石颜色的毒箭蛙，有剧毒。

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Potatoes (like tomatoes) contain poison in the stems and leaves –and even in the potato itself if left to turn green (the green is due to a high concentration of the glycoalkaloid poison).

马铃薯（就像西红柿）在茎和叶子中含有毒素——如果它变成绿的，甚至马铃薯本身也会有毒。

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He knows that alcohol will kill him like poison.

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the different states want corporations to register and therefore the rules are such that they protect the corporation with the poison pills I can't get into all these different things - -stagnant boards, poison pills- and I think if you just change some of that we could be like, for instance, England is much better.

每个州都想让自己的企业注册,所以现在的规则就是,各州都用毒药丸保护企业,我不能干涉所有的这些东西,-没有进步的管理层，毒药丸-,如果你愿意改变其中一些方面的话,我们就会像，例如，英国企业的情况比美国好多了。

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They also use quieter methods, like veterinary drugs, poison and crossbows.

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San Diego, California (CNN) -- Peanuts are like poison for people who have severe food allergies to them.

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At a seminar in Abu Dhabi this week, Major-General Patrick Cordingley, a Briton who commanded a brigade in the Gulf war, maintained that Gulf security was still threatened by potentially hostile neighbours (read Iraq and Iran), ballistic missiles, lethal agents like poison gas, and internal unrest.

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Harboring resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other guy to die.

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