pestilence是什么意思，pestilence怎么读

pestilence基本信息

pestilence基本信息

读法：英 ["pestɪl(ə)ns] 美 ["pɛstɪləns]

释义：

n. 瘟疫（尤指鼠疫）；有害的事物

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英英释义

Noun:

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

any epidemic disease with a high death rate

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"

中英词源

pestilence 瘟疫

来自拉丁语pestis,传染病，瘟疫，诅咒，词源同pest.

pestilence (n.): c. 1300, from Old French pestilence "plague, epidemic" (12c.) and directly from Latin pestilentia "a plague, an unwholesome atmosphere," noun of condition from pestilentem (nominative pestilens) "infected, unwholesome, noxious," from pestis "deadly disease, plague" (see pest).

词态变化

复数 pestilences;

权威造句

1. They were crazed by the famine and pestilence of that bitter winter.: 他们因那年严冬的饥饿与瘟疫而折磨得发狂.

2. A pestilence was raging in that area.: 瘟疫正在那一地区流行.

3. A pestilence was raging in this area.: 鼠疫正在这一地区流行.

4. A pestilence overhangs the country.: 瘟疫威胁着那个国家.

5. None so self - devoted as Hester when pestilence stalked through the town.: 在镇上蔓延瘟疫的时候,谁也没有海丝特那样忘我地献身.

近反义词

treatise on pestilence 温疫论

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