Pestilence
['pestɪl(ə)ns] or ['pɛstɪləns]
解释:
(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'.
整理:罗伯塔--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.
(n.) Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers.
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同义词及近义词：
n. Plague, pest, BLIGHT, contagious distemper.
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例句:
- I had never before beheld one killed by pestilence. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- What the coming summer would bring, we knew not; but the present months were our own, and our hopes of a cessation of pestilence were high. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- This same pestilence, we may note, also helped to produce a century of confusion in the Western world (see § 1). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Such were we upon earth, wondering aghast at the effects of pestilence. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- There are set-backs, massacres, pestilence; but the story is, on the whole, one of enlargement. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He desired to go; each day he expected to be infected by pestilence, each day he was unable to resist the gentle violence of Adrian's detention. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- But Isis, we are told, is no longer Isis but Hariti, a pestilence goddess whom Buddha converted and made benevolent. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But pestilence was absent from among them. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The God sends down his angry plagues from high, Famine and pestilence in heaps they die. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- During the progress of the pestilence he had entered upon various schemes, by which to acquire adherents and power. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- They flee man as man flees a pestilence. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Comets, meteors, an d eclipses were considered as omens portending pestilence, national disaster, or the fate of kings. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Mexico laid waste by the united effects of storm, pestilence and famine. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Pestilence and disease were met by Imperial hospitals and government physicians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It was the peculiar and dreadful distinction of our visitation, that none who had been attacked by the pestilence had recovered. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- There may have been prehistoric pestilences. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Englishman Bede, one of the few writers of the time, records pestilences in England in 664, 672, 678, and 683, no fewer than four in twenty years! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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