blight的意思|blight的解释-里氏词典

blight [blait]

n. 枯萎病

vt. 使染上枯萎病, 破坏

vi. 枯萎

[医] 枯蒌病(植物)

The accident cast a blight on our happiness.
那场意外事故使我们的幸福生活蒙上了一层阴影。
Her life was blighted by ill health.
她的一生被疾病所摧残。
One example is the needle blight.
针叶萎凋病就是一例。

blight

[ noun ]

a state or condition being blighted

<noun.state>

any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting

<noun.state>

[ verb ]

cause to suffer a blight

<verb.weather>

plague

Too much rain may blight the garden with mold

Blight \Blight\ (bl[imac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blighted}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Blighting}.] [Perh. contr. from AS.
bl[=i]cettan to glitter, fr. the same root as E. bleak. The
meaning ``to blight'' comes in that case from to glitter,
hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. Cf.
{Bleach}, {Bleak}.]
1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and
fertility of.

[This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and
fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.
--Woodward.

2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar
essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.

Seared in heart and lone and blighted. --Byron.

Blight \Blight\, v. i.
To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never
blights.

Blight \Blight\, n.
1. Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as
a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants,
causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned
by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.

2. The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a
withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the
whole or a part of a plant, etc.

3. That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes;
that which impairs or destroys.

A blight seemed to have fallen over our fortunes.
--Disraeli.

4. (Zo["o]l.) A downy species of aphis, or plant louse,
destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and
branches; -- also applied to several other injurious
insects.

5. pl. A rashlike eruption on the human skin. [U. S.]

Each adds to the blight.
Mr. Biderman boasts that "the South Bronx as a national symbol of urban blight is very quickly becoming a fading memory."
It seemed ideal for smallish sites, but a terror has stolen up on it, moving east from Somerset up the line of the M5 motorway. Joseph Rock is prone to the disease of fire blight, which enters through damaged bark in winter.
Aiming for better varieties, they had unknowingly bred susceptibility to the blight into fully 80 percent of the nation's corn crop.
In the 19th century, potatoes were the staple food of Ireland and blight caused a cruel famine.
The "strong sunlight needed to wilt the sour blight of prejudice" is not forcing humiliating public disclosure of violent rapes on unwilling victims.
So what is the industry doing and what more can be done to reduce the blight it often generates? Many of the measures taken so far are small, and some probably sound more meaningful than they are.
Chen, his wife, three children and mother live in the heart of China's drought country, stricken this year with its worst blight in 50 years.
The apples are resistant to scab and, in varying degrees, fire blight, apple cedar rust and powdery mildew _ among the most prevalent diseases in the industry, and some are even resistant to bugs.
One newspaper even blamed a recent outbreak of tomato blight on "diseased" seeds maliciously exported by Israel.
But Wyden said EPA has concentrated only on the "simple problem of plume blight _ pollution from a few distinct sources near the park." Wyden said he would try to amend the act in the Energy and Commerce Committee early next year.
A growing blight threatens to destroy the nation's entire hazelnut crop, and experts here are trying to find a way to control the plant disease.
Its geographical remoteness, and the difficulty of access to all but the most determined island lover, means that it is untouched by so-called progress, mercifully free from television, shopping malls and building blight.
SINCE bank network expansion was liberalised, with the easing of the central bank's tight constraints in March 1990, branch blight has hit Italy.
The court noted that the city spent much of the 1970s trying to get SRO owners to tear down housing it considered a blight.
Maxwell Street _ where raggedy peddlers have hawked their gadgets for more than a century _ likely will take its final bow in the 1990s, city planners say, the victim of blight and an ambitious university looking to expand its campus.
"We tend to think of agriculture as inherently better than running around as hunter-gatherers," but early plants were nutritionally deficient and farms faced the risk of poor weather or blight, Wills said.
Hot Springs was hard-hit by flooding and officials had feared a tourism blight.
Putting residents in charge, advocates believe, is the surest way to avoid blight in affordable housing.
It spread but within 15 years a variation was discovered in Italy that was less virulent and appeared to stop the killing blight.
The city has remained a symbol of urban blight and Mafia power in a nation emerging as a European economic powerhouse.
But Daviana appears to be particularly susceptible to the blight, Mehlenbacher said.
London cannot afford blight on the scale implicit in a deferred decision.
Others, like sponge buyer Julio Arellano in Miami, say a 3-year-old blight affecting Mediterranean sponge beds was responsible for a worldwide shortage.

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