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plaguing

/pleyg/US // pleɪg //UK // (pleɪɡ) //

困扰人的,困扰的,困扰人的是,困扰人的问题

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n.名词 noun
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    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
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    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.
    • : to infect with a plague; cause an epidemic in or among: diseases that still plague the natives of Ethiopia.
    • : to afflict with any evil: He was plagued by allergies all his life.

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Examples

  • That’s less flow sweeping through concrete canals, carrying garbage and other undesirables to plague the beaches of Southern California.

  • For these members of Congress, the gun debate is personal Long lines and delayed results again plague coronavirus tests as Thanksgiving approaches

  • Yersinia pestis, the germ that causes plague, tamps down the early immune response, so that infected people can travel and spread infection for days before they feel sick.

  • If you’re looking for something beyond documentaries, try “Blood Quantum,” a Canadian zombie apocalypse film where only the Indigenous are immune to the plague.

  • It’s fair to say that the Renaissance followed the plague, the good follows the bad.

  • The big twist is that by requesting those documents, Hall did in fact uncover a nepotism problem plaguing UT admissions.

  • This problem, one of many plaguing the region due to Ebola, gets exponentially worse with every new victim.

  • By 1910, when Broussard introduced his bill, the flowers had been plaguing his state for at least a decade.

  • Caleb makes clear that those plaguing him are honest-to-god metaphysical beings and not traumatic figments.

  • The threat of a future mass uprising won't disappear until the larger issues plaguing the Palestinians do.

  • Are you bent on plaguing me, Matilda, or is it that you truly believe I am seeking some pretense to go away under a false flag?

  • The priest goes on talking about it, and plaguing him with it, when he wants to forget it.

  • I was opposed to your perpetually plaguing the child, and also to the endless jumping from one thing to another.

  • Here's my wife gets no sleep of a night as it is, all owing to that Varney, who has been plaguing us so long.

  • I am very easy here, nobody plaguing me in a morning; and Patrick saves many a score lies.