blighting n. 枯萎之(blight进行式)
- The cold north wind pointed with barbed shafts, icy, malevolent, greedy, blighting, paralyzing.
寒冷的北风带着有刺的矛尖吹来,冷冰冰地、刻毒地、贪婪地,具有破坏性,使人疲软无力。 - The great danger is not that we shall overreach our capacities but that we shall undervalue and under-employ them,thus blighting our great possibilities.
最危险的不是我们要超越不了自己的能力而是我们对自己的能力评价不足,开发不足,因此失去了人生无数个可能。 - The loss of Ballack is a huge blow to José Mourinho, the German becoming the latest key player to be struck by the injury jinx that is blighting Chelsea's season.
失去巴拉克对穆里尼奥是一个巨大的打击。在切尔西这个风雨飘摇的赛季中,德国人是最新一位被伤病不幸击倒的关键球员。
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.
Blighting \Blight"ing\, a.
Causing blight.