牛津词典公布2021年度词汇：Vax(7)

The chemicals can be poisonous if ingested.
这些化学制品如果摄入体内可能会引起中毒。
补充：
digest表示“消化”，英文解释为“when you digest food, or it digests , it is changed into substances that your body can use”，举个：
Humans cannot digest plants such as grass.
人不能消化草类植物。
After deciding last year that it was impossible to sum up 2020 in one word, the company that produces the Oxford English Dictionary said the shorthand for vaccine had “injected itself into the bloodstream of the English language” this year during the Covid pandemic.
在去年决定难以用一个词来概括2020年之后，制作《牛津英语词典》的公司表示，在今年新冠疫情期间，vaccine的简写词vax“将自己注入了英语语言的血液中”。
shorthand
1）表示“简约表达法”，英文解释为“You can use shorthand to mean a quick or simple way of referring to something.”举个：
He uses the shorthand of "second age" for the group of younger people who are creating families.
他用“第二代”来简单指称那些更年轻、正在组建家庭的人。
2）表示“速记（法）”，英文解释为“Shorthand is a quick way of writing and uses signs to represent words or syllables. Shorthand is sometimes used by secretaries and journalists to write down what someone is saying.”举个：