blighting
v. 使凋萎( blight的現在分詞 ); 使頹喪; 損害; 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...
這項歧視性政策確實成了美國的一大禍根。
Manchester still suffers from urban blight and unacceptable poverty.
曼徹斯特仍然受到城區髒亂和嚴重貧困問題的困擾。
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.
一個令人難堪的疏忽幾乎毀掉了他還沒有起步的事業。
...thousands of families whose lives were blighted by unemployment.
成千上萬因為失業而難以維持生計的家庭
Blight is a disease which makes plants dry up and die.
He perceived an instant that she did not know the blighting news.
他立即看出她還不知道這個失敗的訊息.
The stink of exhaust, the mind - numbing tedium of traffic , parking lots blighting central city real estate.
排氣管散發的難聞氣味; 讓人麻木的交通擁堵;妨礙中心城市房地產的停車場.
The cold north wind pointed with barbed shafts , icy malevolent, greedy, blighting, paralyzing.
寒冷的北風帶著有刺的矛尖吹來,冷冰冰地 、 刻毒地 、 貪婪地, 具有破壞性, 使人疲軟無力.