pestilence
英 [ˈpestɪləns]
美 [ˈpestɪləns]
n. 瘟疫
复数：pestilences
BNC.24980 / COCA.23924
牛津词典
noun
- 瘟疫
any infectious disease that spreads quickly and kills a lot of people
柯林斯词典
- 瘟疫
Pestilenceis any disease that spreads quickly and kills large numbers of people.
英英释义
noun
- a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
- racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation
- according to him, I was the canker in their midst
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- 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
双语例句
- They are craze by the famine and pestilence of that bitter winter.
他们因那年严冬的饥馑与瘟疫而发狂。 - Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
3他必救你脱离捕鸟人的网罗，和毒害的瘟疫。 - By this theory, the effect of pestilence is neglected and the Black Death is recognized as a kind of Necessary event.
在这种理论中，瘟疫作为一种必然性的事件，其作用被淡化。 - Pestilence walked abroad in that area.
那一地区瘟疫泛滥。 - For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets;
我必使瘟疫进入西顿，使血流在他街上。 - And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
我必使刀剑，饥荒，瘟疫临到他们，直到他们从我所赐给他们和他们列祖之地灭绝。 - A pestilence was raging in that area.
瘟疫正在那一地区流行。 - The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease.
重要的事情是，他们没有把你载到一个恐怖、险恶、污秽的地方，也不是到达瘟疫流行、饥荒、灾祸的地区。 - He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
有欲望而无行动者滋生瘟疫。 - Some Africans are suffering from famine, pestilence and other evils.
有些非洲人正在承受着饥荒、疫病及其他不幸。