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
- 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。 - 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。 - By this theory, the effect of pestilence is neglected and the Black Death is recognized as a kind of Necessary event.
在这种理论中，瘟疫作为一种必然性的事件，其作用被淡化。 - Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
在他前面有瘟疫流行，在他脚下有热症发出。 - 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。 - There is the source of the recurring pestilence.
那里是一再发生瘟疫的策源地。 - 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。 - Pestilence walked abroad in that area.
那一地区瘟疫泛滥。 - There is hunger in all the flood-hit areas. Pestilence walked abroad in that area.
洪水泛滥地区到处都出现了饥荒。那一地区瘟疫泛滥。 - It is a garment born out of revolution, warfare and pestilence.
西服是随革命、战争和瘟疫因运而生的。