a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of; "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst" 同义词:canker,
any epidemic disease with a high death rate 同义词:plague, pest,
a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal 同义词:plague, pest, pestis,
例句与用法
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A pestilence was raging in that area . 瘟疫正在那一地区流行。
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A pestilence was raging in this area . 鼠疫正在这一地区流行。
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There is the source of the recurring pestilence . 那里是一再发生瘟疫的策源地。
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No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous . 以往的瘟疫从没象这次那么恐怖,那么骇人听闻。
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They were crazed by the famine and pestilence of that bitter winter . 他们被那年严冬的饥荒与瘟疫逼疯了。
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The hollow seemed a nursery of pestilences small and great, in the immediate neighbourhood of comfort and health . 这山坳临近安逸舒适的健康之乡,但却似乎是大大小小的疾病的温床。
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He who desires but acts not , breeds pestilence 有欲望而无行动者滋生瘟疫。
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Malaria , pestilence . don ' t want it , don ' t need it 疟疾,瘟疫,我可不想碰上
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" harbinger of pestilence . seed of destruc - - “瘟疫的前兆,毁灭的萌芽”
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" harbinger of pestilence . seed of destruc - “瘟疫的前兆,毁灭的萌芽”