blighted

英 [ˈblaɪtɪd]

美 [ˈblaɪtɪd]

v.  损害; 妨害; 贻害
blight的过去分词和过去式

过去式：blighted　过去分词：blighted　

GRE

BNC.36383 / COCA.24941

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 破坏因素；祸根；阴影
  You can refer to something as ablightwhen it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
  1. This discriminatory policy has really been a blight on America...
     这项歧视性政策确实成了美国的一大祸根。
  2. Manchester still suffers from urban blight and unacceptable poverty.
     曼彻斯特仍然受到城区脏乱和严重贫困问题的困扰。
• VERB 破坏（生活）；使（希望）破灭；摧毁；损毁
  If somethingblightsyour life or your hopes, it damages and spoils them. If somethingblightsan area, it spoils it and makes it unattractive.
  1. An embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground.
     一个令人难堪的疏忽几乎毁掉了他还没有起步的事业。
  2. ...thousands of families whose lives were blighted by unemployment.
     成千上万因为失业而难以维持生计的家庭
  3. ...a strategy to redevelop blighted inner-city areas.
     改建破败不堪的旧城区的策略
• （植物的）枯萎病
  Blightis a disease which makes plants dry up and die.

英英释义

adj

• affected by blight
  1. a blighted rose
  2. blighted urban districts
  Synonym:spoilt

双语例句

• The apple trees were blighted by frost.
  苹果树因严寒而枯萎。
• The frost has blighted my potatoes.
  霜使我的马铃薯枯萎了。
• For centuries, Europe was been a continent blighted by frequent and destructive wars.
  几个世纪以来，欧洲大陆饱经频繁战争的蹂躏。
• He hoped that Mary would forget his shoes, but the hope was blighted;
  他希望玛丽别让他穿鞋子，可这希望落了空。
• Illness blighted his hope.
  疾病摧毁了他的希望。
• He had no more imagined to himself the blighted home, and the miserable parents.
  他始终没有想到丧事人家的凄惨和那父母们的伤心。
• To see a bright young life so rudely blighted, so untimely cut down?
  为的是看见一位前途无量的年轻的生命这样无情地被摧残，这样过早地夭折？
• Nostalgia for the era before gentrification ignores the fact that inner cities were often blighted.
  怀念当地中产阶层化之前时代的人忽视了一个事实，市中心的旧城区以前往往较为衰败。
• The dry spell blighted the crops.
  干旱期使农作物枯萎了。
• But he believes the high-risk, low-return dynamic that blighted early-stage investors is shifting.
  但他认为，让早期投资者希望破灭的高风险和低回报的格局正在改变。