plague

英 [pleɪɡ] 美 [pleɪɡ]

• n. 瘟疫；麻烦；灾祸
• vt. 折磨；烦扰；造成麻烦

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. 烦扰

   annoy (especially with repeated requests or questions)

2. vt. 给…造成麻烦或困难

   cause trouble or difficult to sb/sth

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 瘟疫，鼠疫，时疫，疫病
2. 祸患，灾害，天灾，祸害
3. <口>讨厌的人
4. 传染病
5. 黑死病
6. 【圣经】上帝的惩罚；天谴
7. 麻烦事情，疙瘩事

v. 动词

1. 困扰，烦恼，折磨，烦扰
2. 使染瘟疫
3. 使受灾祸
4. <口>使苦恼，使受煎熬
5. 捉弄
6. 阻碍，干扰
7. 给…造成长时间的痛苦
8. 纠缠，缠磨，缠扰

英英释义

Noun:

1. a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

2. any epidemic disease with a high death rate

3. a swarm of insects that attack plants;

   "a plague of grasshoppers"
   

4. any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

5. an annoyance;

   "those children are a damn plague"
   

Verb:

1. cause to suffer a blight;

   "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"
   

2. annoy continually or chronically;

   "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"
   "This man harasses his female co-workers"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Plague came in the wake of earthquake.
   地震之后紧跟着就是瘟疫。
2. A great plague was then raging in the city.
   那时一场大瘟疫正在该城肆虐。
3. He's been avoiding me like the plague since our quarrel.
   我们吵架以後，他一直如避蛇蝎似的躲著我。
4. A plague of locusts affected the harvest a lot this year.
   蝗灾大大影响了今年的丰收。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. A demon or spirit once was thought to plague sleeping people.
   梦魔被认为折磨睡觉的人的魔鬼或灵魂
2. He always plagues me to help him.
   他总是烦我去帮助他。
3. Telemarketers plague our lives.
   电话销售员给我们生活带来了很多麻烦。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. Don't always plague your mother.
   不要总是缠着你母亲。
2. That mistake plagued him for years.
   那个错误使他痛苦了许多年。
3. She has been plaguing me with silly questions all day.
   她整天用愚蠢的问题烦扰我。
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4. Why am I plagued with bad luck?
   我为什么老是倒霉?
5. She was plagued with arthritis.
   她患关节炎十分痛苦。
6. The system is still plagued by technical faults.
   这种系统仍为技术故障所困扰。
7. The construction schedule was plagued by the bad weather.
   天气恶劣使工程进度受阻。

经典引文

• A plague of moths in the castle!

  出自：Beano

• The country was plagued for five generations by useless civil war.

  出自： H. A. L. Fisher

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• plague a construction schedule 阻碍工程进度
• plague the system 造成系统出问题

～+介词

• plague by sb's everlasting begging 因某人不停地乞求而厌烦
• plague into doing sth 烦得只好做某事
• plague with 因…困扰
• plague with doubts and fears 为疑虑和恐惧所困扰

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. plague的基本意思是“烦扰”,指因某事物〔原因〕使某人烦扰,也可指给某人〔事物〕造成麻烦或困难。
2. plague是及物动词,接名词、代词作宾语,可用于被动结构。

近反义词

【近义词】

• pestilence 瘟疫
• epidemic 流行病
• disease 疾病
• trouble 困难
• badger 獾
• pester 纠缠
• bother 烦扰
• blight 枯萎病
• wave 波浪
• outbreak 爆发
• curse 诅咒
• affliction 痛苦
• scourge 灾难
• afflict 使苦恼
• dog 狗
• pursue 追求
• annoy 使恼怒
• beleaguer 围攻
• molest 骚扰
• harass 使疲乏
• torment 苦痛
• vex 使恼怒
• haunt 常到的地方
• worry 撕咬
• cancer 癌
• torture 拷问
• infest 侵扰
• ride 骑
• pest 害虫
• provoke 激怒
• chivy 打猎叫喊
• chevy 打猎时的叫喊...
• beset 包围
• pestis 鼠疫
• chivvy 催促
• hassle 困难
• harry 不断骚扰
• infestation （鼠等)侵扰...