| 单词 | eye blight |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseye blight eye blight n. †(a) something that blights or dims the eye (obsolete rare); (b) (chiefly Australian) irritation or inflammation of the eyes or eyelids, spec. trachoma (in humans) or infectious keratoconjunctivitis (in cattle). ΚΠ 1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Piccolomini v. iii. 192 Therefore are they eye-blights, Thorns in your foot-path. 1855 W. Howitt Boy's Adventures Wilds Austral. 119 He persuaded him at times that he had the eye-blight. 1863 Church & State Rev. 2 108/2 The gold-seekers suffered severely from eyeblight, owing to the concentrated blaze of the sunlight, reflected from the steep sides of the ravine. 1905 Queenslander 26 Oct. 36/4 The medical members of the Central Board of Health expressed the opinion that eye blight was almost entirely, if not absolutely, conveyed from patient to patient by flies. 1955 Central Queensland Herald 24 Feb. 21/1 With eye blight about stockowners should be prepared for it. 1998 B. Seymour Lola Montez xxvi. 337 She was sick with ‘eye-blight’. < as lemmas |
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