plague
plague的音标和读音:
DJ音标发音: [pleig]
KK音标发音: [pleg]
plague的词性:
n.(名词)
1. A widespread affliction or calamity, especially one seen as divine retribution.
瘟疫,祸患:广泛的苦难或灾祸,特别是被认为神的惩罚的
2. A sudden destructive influx or injurious outbreak:
突然的灾害:一种突发性破坏的汇集或有害的爆发:
a plague of locusts; a plague of accidents.
蝗虫灾害;不测之灾
3. A cause of annoyance; a nuisance:
纷扰:引起厌烦的原因;令人头痛的事:
“the plague of social jabbering”(George Santayana)
“社交闲谈造成的纷扰”(乔治·桑塔亚那)
4. A highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.
瘟疫,传染病:一种高度传染且经常是致命的瘟疫,特别指淋巴腺鼠疫
plague的词性:
v.tr.(及物动词)
5. To pester or annoy persistently or incessantly.See Synonyms at harass
使苦恼,烦扰:经常不断地打扰或烦扰参见 harass
6. To afflict with or as if with a disease or calamity:
使遭殃,困扰:被或似乎被某种疾病或灾难折磨:
“Runaway inflation further plagued the wage- or salary-earner”(Edwin O Reischauer)
“失控的通货膨胀加深了工薪阶层的痛苦”(埃德温O赖肖尔)
plague的词源:
7. Middle English plage [blow, calamity, plague]
中古英语 plage [打击,灾难,灾祸]
8. from Late Latin pl3ga
源自 后期拉丁语 pl3ga
9. from Latin [blow, wound] * see pl3k- 2
源自 拉丁语 [灾难,受伤] *参见 pl3k- 2
10. V., Middle English plaghen
动词, 中古英语 plaghen
11. from Middle Dutch
源自 中古荷兰语
12. from plaghe [plague]
源自 plaghe [灾害]
13. from Late Latin pl3ga
源自 后期拉丁语 pl3ga
plague的词性:
n.(名词)