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blighted [blaɪt]

a. 挫折, 枯萎, 摧残, 毁损

Blighted, withered, or shriveled.
枯萎的，萎缩的，皱缩的
Her life was blighted by ill health.
她的一生被疾病所摧残。
The apple trees were blighted by frost.
苹果树因严寒而枯萎.

blighted

[ adj ]
affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity
<adj.all>
a blighted roseblighted urban districts

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.

Petrochemicals are blighted by overcapacity, agrochemicals are in decline thanks to reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, and pharmaceuticals are being depressed by government reforms - most notably in Germany itself.
The magazine noted that both politicians were assassinated before realizing their dreams and that their "blighted legacy" is a theme that surfaces throughout the survey.
Perversely, it has scrapped most of the features that distinguished the old production great (eg the Tutor in Act One), and has kept every feature - especially the post-Imperial accretions - that blighted it (eg the Jester).
Part of the problem is the dire state of the US market, where recession has blighted demand for new cars.
This is partly because some of the next candidates for sale are in blighted market sectors and partly because the sale of profitable public-sector companies leaves the government with fewer large, attractive assets.
The trade embargo against Macedonia blighted its six-month tenure, though Germany may also be taken to the European Court if it carries out plans for a six-month ban on British beef on the grounds that it could contain 'mad cow disease'.
Project officials say that private enterprise had done nothing in the project area, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, which is as blighted as ever.
It followed a full year of declines and was good news for a housing industry blighted by overbuilt markets.
"The road and the bridge is at least something for them." Infrastructure improvements like this will also help lure industry to the blighted area, or so the EC hopes.
Even Mercantile and General, the reinsurance business which blighted yesterday's figures, has been chopped down to size since the year-end.
Shell's Pounds 496m restructuring charge shows its determination to cut costs and tackle its blighted European chemicals business regardless of any upturn.
State Social Services Commissioner Cesar Perales said after a recent tour of Newburgh that the most blighted parts of the city are comparable to the notorious South Bronx in New York City.
The plan, unveiled Wednesday, would turn empty shops to fancy apartments, extend an elevated rail system and reclaim blighted neighborhoods.
His colleagues, who also grew up in the city and remember how proud a place it was before being blighted by race riots in 1967, nod in agreement.
Not only are these new neighborhoods emerging, but the physiognomy of blighted inner-city areas has changed.
Sadly no initiative is made to market this meat and in most Ulster restaurants there is an unfortunate tendency to smother the meat in old-fashioned fruit sauces. A similar lack of initiative has blighted Ulster cheese.
As everyday life is cut open before our eyes, no one in this biopsy on a blighted Paradise is allowed to escape attention by the excuse of 'insignificance.'
And he suggests this measure of success: Homes in East LA, not long ago considered a blighted barrio, sell for three times what they'd cost in Compton, a largely black suburb.

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