blight
blight 英 [blaɪt] 美 [blaɪt]
n. 枯萎 v. 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
- v. 枯萎
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1. His career has been blighted by injuries.
他的事业不断受到伤病的困扰。
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2. an area blighted by unemployment
饱受失业之苦的地区
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3. potato blight
马铃薯枯萎病
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4. His death cast a blight on the whole of that year.
他的死使那一整年都处在阴影之中。
- 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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