blights

英 [blaɪts]

美 [blaɪts]

v.  损害; 妨害; 贻害
blight的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 破坏因素；祸根；阴影
  You can refer to something as ablightwhen it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
  1. This discriminatory policy has really been a blight on America...
     这项歧视性政策确实成了美国的一大祸根。
  2. Manchester still suffers from urban blight and unacceptable poverty.
     曼彻斯特仍然受到城区脏乱和严重贫困问题的困扰。
• VERB 破坏（生活）；使（希望）破灭；摧毁；损毁
  If somethingblightsyour life or your hopes, it damages and spoils them. If somethingblightsan area, it spoils it and makes it unattractive.
  1. An embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground.
     一个令人难堪的疏忽几乎毁掉了他还没有起步的事业。
  2. ...thousands of families whose lives were blighted by unemployment.
     成千上万因为失业而难以维持生计的家庭
  3. ...a strategy to redevelop blighted inner-city areas.
     改建破败不堪的旧城区的策略
• （植物的）枯萎病
  Blightis a disease which makes plants dry up and die.

双语例句

• That, when December blights thy brow, He still may leave thy garland green.
  当十二月的严寒袭你额头，还会留下你的绿色的冠。
• As an expat, you are freed from two blights that afflict people who live in their own countries: the "status dance" and the "media bubble".
  作为一名老外，你不会受到本国居民所遭受的两种不良影响：“地位舞蹈”和“媒体泡沫”。
• After decades in the shadows, the official corruption that blights much of Asia is finally coming under the spotlight as governments publicly commit themselves to a battle against bribery and fraud.
  随着亚洲国家政府公开承诺将打击贿赂和欺诈行为，在亚洲很多地区肆虐的官员腐败现象终于走到了聚光灯下。数十年来，这种腐败现象一直处在阴影之中。
• It blights lives in terms of poverty and marginalization.
  从贫困和边缘化的角度来看，它使生活变得更加恶劣。
• The child-poverty rate is higher, according to a UNICEF report, than that in Japan, Canada or any European country other than Romania, and it blights lives.
  据联合国儿童基金会报道，美国的儿童贫困率比日本、加拿大和除罗马尼亚的其他欧洲国家，这种高儿童贫困比率也是对生命的摧残。
• Their love should be mended by each, for love denied blights the soul we owe to God.
  爱应该是可以互补的，否则便愧对上帝赋予我们的高贵灵魂。
• China and India promised to make co-operation rather than conflict the leitmotif of their rise as global economic powers yesterday but failed to dispel much of the mutual suspicion that blights bilateral ties.
  中国与印度昨日承诺，在两国崛起为全球经济大国的过程中，摒弃对抗冲突，让互利合作成为主旋律。但双方远未能打消多年困扰双边关系的相互猜疑。
• And provide a welcome antidote to the congestion that often blights 20th-century life.
  它向时常破坏20世纪生活的过度负担提供了一付受欢迎的解毒剂。
• From the whole growth period, planting watermelon in a way combined base residue with slurry spraying can produce high yield, good quality, sweet, good color and luster, and can effectively prevent watermelon blights.
  从整个生育期看，种植西瓜基施沼渣，叶面喷施沼液产量高，品质好，瓜甜，色泽好，并可有效防治西瓜枯萎病。
• Blasts the new born infant's tear. And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.
  把新生婴儿的啼哭阻挠，新婚的灵车被瘟疫糟蹋。