bane
bane 英 [beɪn] 美 [ben]
n. 毒药；祸害；灭亡的原因
名词复数:banes
- The noun bane refers to anything that is a cause of harm, ruin, or death. But we often use it for things that aren't that bad, just feel like it. You might say mosquitoes are the bane of your existence.
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- n. 毒药；祸害；灭亡的原因
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1. Redundancy is well known in biology — it is the bane of developmental geneticists.
冗余性在生物学中也广为人知—发育遗传学家的克星。
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2. Moreover, corruption is the bane of development everywhere, so new governments should move fast to establish institutions and procedures to fight it.
此外，腐败无论在哪里都是发展的祸根，因此新政府必须建立起与之斗争的机构和程序。
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3. So, Paul Krugman jumps from blasting savings as a bane to economic prosperity to then suggesting that savings is the only reason why our dependence on Chinese financiers is no longer as relevant.
因此，保罗·克鲁格曼从猛烈抨击储蓄是经济繁荣的祸害的立场跳到了另一个立场，竟认为我们对中国投资人的依赖不再重要的原因乃是储蓄。
- bane (n.) Old English bana "killer, slayer, murderer, a worker of death" (human, animal, or object), also "the devil," from Proto-Germanic *banon, cognate with *banja- "wound" (source also of Old Frisian bona "murderer," Old Norse bani "death; that which causes death," Old High German bana "murder," Old English benn "wound," Gothic banja "stroke, wound"), from PIE root *gwhen- "to strike, kill, wound" (source also of Avestan banta "ill"). Sense of "that which causes ruin or woe" is from 1570s. Related: Baneful.
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