blighting
v. 使凋萎( blight的现在分词 ); 使颓丧; 损害; 妨害
You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
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。
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。
If something blights your life or your hopes, it damages and spoils them. If something blights an area, it spoils it and makes it unattractive.
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。
...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
Blight is a disease which makes plants dry up and die.
He perceived an instant that she did not know the blighting news.
他立即看出她还不知道这个失败的消息.
The stink of exhaust, the mind - numbing tedium of traffic , parking lots blighting central city real estate.
排气管散发的难闻气味; 让人麻木的交通拥堵;妨碍中心城市房地产的停车场.
The cold north wind pointed with barbed shafts , icy malevolent, greedy, blighting, paralyzing.
寒冷的北风带着有刺的矛尖吹来,冷冰冰地 、 刻毒地 、 贪婪地, 具有破坏性, 使人疲软无力.