参考词典中pestilence的常规释义:
基本释义
- n. 瘟疫
参考例句
- A pestilence swept over the country.
疫病席卷全国。 - A deadly epidemic disease;a pestilence.
瘟疫一种致命的传染病;瘟疫 - A pestilence or dire disease.
痘疫或者可怕的疾病 - A pestilence overhangs the country.
瘟疫威胁着那国家。
- A pestilence swept over the country.
英英解释
3个名词解释
- 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] pest, pestilence, pestis, plague - any epidemic disease with a high death rate
[同] pest, pestilence, plague
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- a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
[同] canker, pestilence
[例]- racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation
- according to him, I was the canker in their midst
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