blights

英 [blaɪts]

美 [blaɪts]

v.  损害; 妨害; 贻害
blight的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 破坏因素；祸根；阴影
  You can refer to something as ablightwhen it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
  1. This discriminatory policy has really been a blight on America...
     这项歧视性政策确实成了美国的一大祸根。
  2. Manchester still suffers from urban blight and unacceptable poverty.
     曼彻斯特仍然受到城区脏乱和严重贫困问题的困扰。
• VERB 破坏（生活）；使（希望）破灭；摧毁；损毁
  If somethingblightsyour life or your hopes, it damages and spoils them. If somethingblightsan area, it spoils it and makes it unattractive.
  1. An embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground.
     一个令人难堪的疏忽几乎毁掉了他还没有起步的事业。
  2. ...thousands of families whose lives were blighted by unemployment.
     成千上万因为失业而难以维持生计的家庭
  3. ...a strategy to redevelop blighted inner-city areas.
     改建破败不堪的旧城区的策略
• （植物的）枯萎病
  Blightis a disease which makes plants dry up and die.

双语例句

• While fewer companies now award straight stock options, poor pay structures polluted judgments at banks in the run-up to the crisis and encouraged the short-termism that still blights much corporate decision-making.
  尽管现在直接奖励期权的公司变少了，但在此次危机之前，不佳的薪资结构影响了银行的判断，并鼓励了如今仍在妨害很多企业决策的短期主义。
• As an expat, you are freed from two blights that afflict people who live in their own countries: the "status dance" and the "media bubble".
  作为一名老外，你不会受到本国居民所遭受的两种不良影响：“地位舞蹈”和“媒体泡沫”。
• Their love should be mended by each, for love denied blights the soul we owe to God.
  爱应该是可以互补的，否则便愧对上帝赋予我们的高贵灵魂。
• Blasts the new born infant's tear. And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.
  把新生婴儿的啼哭阻挠，新婚的灵车被瘟疫糟蹋。
• This variety of flowers melon super-large fruit type, resistant blights, cirsoid blight, epidemic disease, fruit-set rate is high.
  本品种属花瓜特大果型，高抗枯萎病、蔓枯病，疫病等病害，座果率高。
• And provide a welcome antidote to the congestion that often blights 20th-century life.
  它向时常破坏20世纪生活的过度负担提供了一付受欢迎的解毒剂。
• In particular, the buildup of diseases, such as leaf blights need to be monitored over time.
  特别是病害的发生如叶枯萎需要长期监测。
• New England was accustomed to didacticism in its literature, and unmitigated didacticism blights the novel.
  新英格兰习惯于在文学里说教，可是一味说教，小说就要完蛋。
• The latest bred hybrid big fruit type high round watermelon varieties, high frost-resistant blights, anthracnose, epidemic disease.
  最新育成杂交一代大果型高圆形西瓜新品种，高抗枯萎病、炭疽病、疫病等病害。
• The child-poverty rate is higher, according to a UNICEF report, than that in Japan, Canada or any European country other than Romania, and it blights lives.
  据联合国儿童基金会报道，美国的儿童贫困率比日本、加拿大和除罗马尼亚的其他欧洲国家，这种高儿童贫困比率也是对生命的摧残。