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
- A pestilence overhangs the country.
瘟疫威胁着那个国家。 - And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
6又要击打这城的居民，连人带牲畜都必遭遇大瘟疫死亡。 - He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
有欲望而无行动者滋生瘟疫。 - People were forced to leave their homes because of famine and pestilence.
人们因饥荒和瘟疫被迫离开家园。 - Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
你和你的百姓为何要因刀剑，饥荒，瘟疫死亡，正如耶和华论到不服事巴比伦王的那国说的话呢。 - 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。 - A pestilence was raging in that area.
瘟疫正在那一地区流行。 - 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。 - 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。 - Ironically, Europe, which had bequeathed the rabbit AS a pest to Australia acquired this man-made diseASe AS a pestilence.
具有讽刺意味的是，欧洲把这种兔子作为有害动物传到澳洲，后来欧洲却从澳洲染上了这一被视为瘟疫的人造疾病。