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pestilence是什么意思

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pestilence 是什么意思

音标:[ 'pestiləns ]  
名词复数:pestilences   

中文翻译与英英解释

n.
1.鼠疫;恶疫,时疫,流行病。
2.祸害,洪水猛兽〔指学说等〕。
3.伤风败德之事。
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

1.A pestilence was raging in that area .
瘟疫正在那一地区流行。

2.A pestilence was raging in this area .
鼠疫正在这一地区流行。

3.There is the source of the recurring pestilence .
那里是一再发生瘟疫的策源地。

4.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。

5.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。

6.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。

7.He who desires but acts not , breeds pestilence
有欲望而无行动者滋生瘟疫。

8.Malaria , pestilence . don ' t want it , don ' t need it
疟疾,瘟疫,我可不想碰上

9." harbinger of pestilence . seed of destruc - -
“瘟疫的前兆,毁灭的萌芽”

10." harbinger of pestilence . seed of destruc -
“瘟疫的前兆,毁灭的萌芽”

 
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