Plague
[pleɪg] or [pleɡ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an annoyance; 'those children are a damn plague'.
(noun.) any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God).
(noun.) any epidemic disease with a high death rate.
(noun.) 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.
整理:伊冯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
(n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague.
(v. t.) To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.
(v. t.) Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.
艾伦整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Pestilence, pest.[2]. Affliction; annoyance, vexation, trouble, nuisance, curse, torment, thorn in one's side.
v. a. Annoy, tease, vex, worry, trouble, molest, torment, harass, harry, disturb, fret, gall, chafe, bore, incommode, bother, pester, badger, hector, irritate, disquiet.
科迪莉亚整理
解釋/意思:
n. any great natural evil: a deadly disease or pestilence: a very troublesome person or thing esp. a malignant kind of contagious fever prevailing epidemically characterised by buboes or swellings of the lymphatic glands by carbuncles and petechi?—v.t. to infest with disease or trouble: to harass or annoy:—pr.p. plāg′uing; pa.t. and pa.p. plāgued.—ns. Plague′-mark -spot a mark or spot of plague or foul disease: a place where disease is constantly present; Plag′uer one who plagues vexes or annoys; Plague′-sore.—adv. Plag′uily vexatiously.—adj. Plaguy (plā′gi) vexatious: (Shak.) troublesome.—adv. vexatiously.—Plague on may a curse rest on.—Be at the plague to be at the trouble.
埃尔莎整理
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of a plague raging, denotes disappointing returns in business, and your wife or lover will lead you a wretched existence. If you are afflicted with the plague, you will keep your business out of embarrassment with the greatest maneuvering. If you are trying to escape it, some trouble, which looks impenetrable, is pursuing you.
埃尔韦拉錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague as we of to-day have the happiness to know it is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
卡洛整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Where was the plague? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- France, Germany, Italy and Spain, were interposed, walls yet without a breach, between us and the plague. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She would wander out at night to get food, and returned home, pleased that she had met no one, that she was in no danger from the plague. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The physician declared that he died of the plague. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- They were afraid of Egyptian plague and cholera. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- What a plague those creatures are--staring at me so! 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- It was whispered that he had died of the plague. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- If you have plagued him, he's sober and walks slowly, as if he wanted to go back and do his work better. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The case is, that I cannot be plagued with this child, any longer! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Was she as much plagued as herself to get tolerable servants? 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- They are not in trouble like other men, neither are they plagued like other men. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I don't know anything about your plagued French! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I believe that more of my ill health is caused by them than by any one thing; and ours, I know, are the very worst that ever anybody was plagued with. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I won't be deceived and plagued and made a fool of. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- This is considered as a privileged place, and stands like the land of Goshen amid the plagues of Egypt. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Your house is so full of these little plagues, now, that a body can't set down their foot without treading on 'em. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The God sends down his angry plagues from high, Famine and pestilence in heaps they die. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Agriculture must have declined, and the population notably decreased through the plagues and distresses from which it had suffered. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He is like one of those plagues the priests tell us of. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- These two classes are the plagues of every city in which they are generated, being what phlegm and bile are to the body. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- She was a poor, empty-headed, spiritless woman--what you call a born drudge--and I was now and then not averse to plaguing her by taking Anne away. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- My cousins have been so plaguing me! 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Begin to do something now by not plaguing his life out, said Meg sharply. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- And he jumped on the bus, and I saw his ugly face leering at me with a wicked smile to think how he'd had the last word of plaguing. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- There's nothing I like better than plaguing you--you're so like your mother, and I must do without it. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The men got in the habit of plaguing him; and, finally, one day he said to the assembled experimenters in the top room of the laboratory: 'The next man that does it, I will kill him. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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