pestilence
英 [ˈpestɪləns]
美 [ˈpestɪləns]
n. 瘟疫
复数：pestilences
BNC.24980 / COCA.23924
牛津词典
noun
- 瘟疫
any infectious disease that spreads quickly and kills a lot of people
柯林斯词典
- 瘟疫
Pestilenceis any disease that spreads quickly and kills large numbers of people.
英英释义
noun
- 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
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- 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
双语例句
- They are craze by the famine and pestilence of that bitter winter.
他们因那年严冬的饥馑与瘟疫而发狂。 - Pestilence: A nasty stomach bug spread among fashion-label employees, celebrities and editors.
是生病：一种讨厌的肠胃炎在时尚品牌员工、名流和编辑之间传播。 - Scourge: A source of widespread, dreadful affliction and devastation such as that caused by pestilence or war.
灾难，灾祸：涉及面广的令人害怕的苦难和破坏的根源，例如由瘟疫或战争引起的。 - Ironically, Europe, which had bequeathed the rabbit AS a pest to Australia acquired this man-made diseASe AS a pestilence.
具有讽刺意味的是，欧洲把这种兔子作为有害动物传到澳洲，后来欧洲却从澳洲染上了这一被视为瘟疫的人造疾病。 - No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.
以往的瘟疫从没象这次那么可怖，那么骇人听闻。 - In China itself storms, floods and earthquakes brought pestilence and suffering.
在中国本土，暴雨、洪水和地震带来了瘟疫和苦难。 - A pestilence overhangs the country.
瘟疫威胁着那个国家。 - For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets;
我必使瘟疫进入西顿，使血流在他街上。 - And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
我必使刀剑，饥荒，瘟疫临到他们，直到他们从我所赐给他们和他们列祖之地灭绝。 - Floods, droughts, famine, war, pestilence, plagues, and economic booms and busts are familiar companions in the up-and-down cycle of human history.
在人类历史上起伏不断的周期中，水灾、干旱、饥荒、战争、流行病、瘟疫以及经济繁荣和崩溃都是人们熟悉的现象。