plagues的中文翻譯是什麼意思

plagues

/pleiɡz/

n. 瘟疫( plague的名詞複數 ); 災害,折磨

plagues柯林斯釋義

N-COUNT瘟疫;疫病

A plague is a very infectious disease that spreads quickly and kills large numbers of people.

  • A cholera plague had been killing many prisoners of war at the time.

    當時霍亂疫情已在奪去很多戰俘的生命。

N-UNCOUNT(腺)鼠疫;黑死病

Plague or the plague is a very infectious disease which usually results in death. The patient has a severe fever and swellings on his or her body.

  • ...a fresh outbreak of plague.

    新一輪鼠疫的爆發

  • ...illnesses such as smallpox, typhus and the plague.

    像天花、傷寒和鼠疫這樣的疾病

N-COUNT(某一事物肆虐造成的)災難,禍患

A plague of unpleasant things is a large number of them that arrive or happen at the same time.

  • The city is under threat from a plague of rats...

    該市處於鼠患的威脅之下。

  • Last year there was a plague of robbery and housebreaking.

    去年搶劫和入室行竊成災。

N-COUNT煩擾;令人頭痛的事物

If you describe something as a plague, you mean that it causes a great deal of trouble or harm.

  • Inflation will remain a recurrent plague...

    通貨膨脹將繼續成為週期性的煩擾。

  • Tim seems to have escaped the cynicism which is the absolute plague of our generation.

    蒂姆好像並沒有染上我們這代人憤世嫉俗的通病。

VERB困擾;使煩惱;折磨

If you are plagued by unpleasant things, they continually cause you a lot of trouble or suffering.

  • She was plagued by weakness, fatigue, and dizziness...

    她感覺體虛、疲倦、頭昏眼花。

  • Fears about job security plague nearly half the workforce.

    幾乎一半的員工擔心失業。

VERB纏擾;糾纏

If someone plagues you, they keep bothering you or asking you for something.

  • I'm not going to plague you with a lot more questions, Miss Culver...

    卡爾弗小姐,我不會再問更多的問題來煩你了。

  • Tommy Cook had been plaguing Pinner for months.

    湯米·庫克已糾纏平納好幾個月了。

PHRASE極力迴避

If you say that you avoid someone or something like the plague, you are emphasizing that you deliberately avoid them completely.

  • I would avoid him like the plague when his wife and my parents were around...

    他的妻子和我的父母在旁邊時,我會極力躲著他。

  • I normally avoid cheap wine like the plague.

    我一般對廉價的葡萄酒敬而遠之。

PHRASE…真該死;願上天降禍於…

You say a plague on a particular person or thing when you are very irritated by them and do not want to bother with them any more.

  • A plague on you and your damned percentages!

    你和你該死的百分比都見鬼去吧!

plagues場景例句

Plagues aside, many critics see xenotransplantation as a colossal waste of resources.

除了疫病外, 許多批評家把異種移植看作是資源的巨大浪費.

Plagues were for merly regarded as a visitation of God.

瘟疫從前被認為是上帝的懲罰.

Europe suffered many plagues in the Middle Ages.

歐洲在中世紀屢屢遭受瘟疫.

The city was affected with plagues.

這個城市受到時疫的侵襲.

His vaccine for polio eradicated one of the world's worst plagues.

他的疫苗消滅了世界上最可怕的疾病——脊髓灰質炎.

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