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

• 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。
• After decades in the shadows, the official corruption that blights much of Asia is finally coming under the spotlight as governments publicly commit themselves to a battle against bribery and fraud.
  随着亚洲国家政府公开承诺将打击贿赂和欺诈行为，在亚洲很多地区肆虐的官员腐败现象终于走到了聚光灯下。数十年来，这种腐败现象一直处在阴影之中。
• That, when December blights thy brow, He still may leave thy garland green.
  当十二月的严寒袭你额头，还会留下你的绿色的冠。
• 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。
• 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 notorious smog that blights Beijing improved sharply in the first quarter this year as measures to curb pollution took effect, according to Chinese data collated by environmental group Greenpeace.
  根据环保组织绿色和平（Greenpeace）整理的中国数据，随着整治污染的各项措施收到效果，笼罩北京的出名的雾霾在今年第一季度大幅好转。
• China and India promised to make co-operation rather than conflict the leitmotif of their rise as global economic powers yesterday but failed to dispel much of the mutual suspicion that blights bilateral ties.
  中国与印度昨日承诺，在两国崛起为全球经济大国的过程中，摒弃对抗冲突，让互利合作成为主旋律。但双方远未能打消多年困扰双边关系的相互猜疑。
• 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。
• 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”。
• 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。