blight
blight 英 [blaɪt] 美 [blaɪt]
n. 枯萎病；荒芜 vt. 破坏；使…枯萎 vi. 枯萎
进行时:blighting 过去式:blighted 过去分词:blighted 第三人称单数:blights 名词复数:blights
- A blight is a disease that hurts plants and makes their leaves wither. It can also affect neighborhoods. Urban blight refers to a part of the city where things are falling apart.
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- n. 枯萎病；荒芜
- vt. 破坏；使…枯萎
- vi. 枯萎
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1. blight and death alone.
只有枯萎和死亡。
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2. Only blight and death.
只揭露枯萎和死亡。
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3. The aim is partly aesthetic, but also an attempt to increase the value of neighboring homes and neighborhoods by replacing vacant houses or other signs of blight with greenery.
这样做的目的一部分是出于审美需求，但也可以尝试增加邻近房屋和社区的价值，借以来取代空房子和其它绿色植物枯萎的迹象。
- blight (n.) 1610s, origin obscure; according to OED it emerged into literary speech from the talk of gardeners and farmers. It is perhaps from Old English blæce, blæcðu, a scrofulous skin condition and/or from Old Norse blikna "become pale" (from the group including bleach, bleak, etc.). Used in a general way of agricultural diseases, sometimes with suggestion of "invisible baleful influence;" hence figurative sense of "anything which withers hopes or prospects or checks prosperity" (1660s). Compare slang blighter. Urban blight "condition of disrepair and poverty in a previously thriving part of a city" attested by 1935.
- blight (v.) "afflict with blight, cause to wither or decay," 1660s (implied in blighted), from blight (n.). Figurative sense of "exert a baleful influence on" is by 1712. Related: Blighted; blighting.
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