plague 的 2 个定义
- an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- an infectious, epidemic disease caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, characterized by fever, chills, and prostration, transmitted to humans from rats by means of the bites of fleas.Compare bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, septicemic plague.
- any widespread affliction, calamity, or evil, especially one regarded as a direct punishment by God: a plague of war and desolation.
- any cause of trouble, annoyance, or vexation: Uninvited guests are a plague.
plagued, pla·guing.
- to trouble, annoy, or torment in any manner: The question of his future plagues him with doubt.
- to annoy, bother, or pester: Ants plagued the picnickers.
- to smite with a plague, pestilence, death, etc.; scourge: those whom the gods had plagued.
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plague 近义词
disease that is widespread
annoyance, curse
annoy, disturb
更多plague例句
- How the 2021 Sundance Film Festival — and many of its films — reflected life in a time of plague.
- The crown used the information to gauge the toll of the plague on its largest city and the relative safety of conducting royal business within city limits.
- Throughout human history, we have been subjected to wave after wave of viral and bacterial plagues.
- It’s unclear how the plague bacterium first reached Siberia or whether it caused widespread infections and death, Götherström says.
- Reading Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save in the year of the plague.
- Similar stories plague many parts of Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Asia.
- Why is violence against women central to so many of the conflicts that plague the planet today?
- Spread happens easily, however, and epidemics are propagated when the third form of plague occurs: pneumonia plague.
- As I described in an article over the summer when the fatal case in China was diagnosed, plague has three distinct clinical forms.
- The plague made a brief appearance in China earlier this year and continues in the U.S. with a few cases annually.
- The great plague of this and the subsequent year broke out at St. Giles, London.
- Garnache need not plague himself with vexation that his rash temper alone had wrought his ruin now.
- A man was whipped through London for going to court when his house was infected by plague.
- The plague at Smyrna committed great ravages; about 300 died daily for some time.
- Those little Babcocks are sure to come, invited or not, and as surely would plague the life out of her.