It seemed a perfectly innocuous remark.
那像是一句毫无恶意的话。
an innocuous substance
无害物质
1.无害的,无毒的
2.无关痛养的,乏味的
1.not likely to offend or upset anyone; not likely to harm or hurt anyone or anything
1.it was an innocuous remark; confined himself to innocuous generalities; unobjectionable behavior.
那是一个无伤大雅的评注；以不得罪人的原则约束自己；无伤大雅的行为。
2.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。
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。
4.Evidence of this shift in values is all around. Some of the signs are seemingly innocuous.
这种观念的变化反映在各个方面，有些甚至是无害可言，也是微不足道的。
5.He took to sending her presents, usually innocuous things like slippers, Day-Timers, picture frames, pen-and-pencil sets.
他还送她礼物，通常是些无害的东西，像拖鞋、台历、相框、铅笔和钢笔套。
6.No one inquired exactly what he did, but apart from a few innocuous memos, nothing of any consequence emerged.
没人打听他到底在干些什么，不过，除了一些无关紧要的便函，从来没有什么重要的东西从他那儿送出来。
7.It's easy to speculate that the A3 concept with its innocuous TDI engine was just a "feeler" to guage public reaction to the hyper hatch.
可以很容易地推测，3号的概念，其无害TDI发动机只是一个“触角”，以搜集公众的反应，超舱口。
8.In the folklore of the British Isles, fairies are not the innocuous Tinkerbell creatures they are usually thought to be today.
在不列颠群岛的民间传说中，仙灵并不是我们今天认为的没有危害的小仙女。
9.and he describes "performances" put on by passengers directed at him yet meant to look innocuous to others.
他形容：乘客的表演只针对他，而对别人无害。
10.Had a few, fateful mutations changed an innocuous chimp virus into a human killer?
是一些决定性的突变让这种良性的猩猩病毒变身为人类杀手的吗？