| 单词 | blight |
| 释义 | blight (blaɪt ) Word forms: blights , blighting , blighted 1. variable noun You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things. This discriminatory policy has really been a blight on America. Manchester still suffers from urban blight and unacceptable poverty. Synonyms: curse, suffering, evil, depression 2. verb If something blights your life or your hopes, it damages and spoils them. If something blights an area, it spoils it and makes it unattractive. An embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground. [VERB noun] ...a strategy to redevelop blighted inner-city areas. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: frustrate, destroy, ruin, crush 3. uncountable noun Blight is a disease which makes plants dry up and die. Collocations: blight a life But please don't let this unhealed hurt blight your life anymore. The Sun Unconscionable delays are blighting the lives of both complainants and suspects, who are left in horrible limbo. Times, Sunday Times This overcrowded giant already handles 70m passengers a year and blights the lives of millions. Times, Sunday Times It's an approach whose time should never have been and that ought never again to blight the lives of schoolchildren and aspiring writers. Times, Sunday Times We need a similar focus on reducing arthritis which can affect millions and blight their lives. Times, Sunday Times To its critics, it's an outdated, risky technology that will push up energy bills and blight the landscape. Times,Sunday Times Ministers said that road signs blight the landscape, waste cash and even put motorists in danger by overloading them with information and causing a distraction. Times, Sunday Times He said wind turbines do not work and blight the landscape. Times, Sunday Times Onshore wind farms are often unpopular with local residents due to the noise the turbines make - not to mention the way the huge structures blight the landscape. Times, Sunday Times It would have a 48ft round tower - which objectors claim would 'blight the landscape'. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 祸因, 毁 Japanese: 傷つけるもの, 傷つける |
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