scourge
scourge 英 [skɜ:dʒ] 美 [skɜrdʒ]
vt. 鞭打；蹂躏；严斥；痛斥 n. 鞭；灾祸；鞭子；苦难的根源
进行时:scourging 过去式:scourged 过去分词:scourged 第三人称单数:scourges 名词复数:scourges
- A scourge is a whip — or anything else that is punishing and dreadful. You could confront "a scourge of corruption" or "a scourge of hunger."
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- vt. 鞭打；蹂躏；严斥；痛斥
- n. 鞭；灾祸；鞭子；苦难的根源
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1. Smallpox was probably the single biggest scourge to hit North America.
天花可能是袭击美洲的最大的一个灾祸。
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2. Thatcher has relentlessly flogged the book in Britain and the U.S., giving TV interviews that scourge what she sees as the collapse of her country’s leadership.
撒切尔毫不客气地在英国和美国销售此书，同时接受电视台采访，起到了鞭笞在她看来摇摇欲坠的英国领导的作用。
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3. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
你们与死亡所立的约，必然废掉，与阴间所结的盟，必立不住。 敌军（原文作鞭子）如水涨漫经过的时候，你们必被他践踏。
- scourge (n.) c. 1200, "a whip, lash," from Anglo-French escorge, back-formation from Old French escorgier "to whip," from Vulgar Latin *excorrigiare, from Latin ex- "out, off" (see ex-) + corrigia "thong, shoelace," in this case "whip," probably from a Gaulish word related to Old Irish cuimrech "fetter," from PIE root *reig- "to bind" (see rig (v.)). Figurative use from late 14c. Scourge of God, title given by later generations to Attila the Hun (406-453 C.E.), is attested from late 14c., from Latin flagellum Dei.
- scourge (v.) c. 1300, "to whip," from Old French escorgier and from scourge (n.). Figurative meaning "to afflict" (often for the sake of punishment or purification) is from late 14c. Related: Scourged; scourging.
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