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
- There is the source of the recurring pestilence.
那里是一再发生瘟疫的策源地。 - 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。 - A pestilence was raging in that area.
瘟疫正在那一地区流行。 - They are craze by the famine and pestilence of that bitter winter.
他们因那年严冬的饥馑与瘟疫而发狂。 - 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。 - A pestilence was raging in this area.
鼠疫正在这一地区流行。 - Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
在他前面有瘟疫流行，在他脚下有热症发出。 - 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。 - The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease.
重要的事情是，他们没有把你载到一个恐怖、险恶、污秽的地方，也不是到达瘟疫流行、饥荒、灾祸的地区。 - For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets;
我必使瘟疫进入西顿，使血流在他街上。