“pestilence”的英语解释词典意思

n. 瘟疫，毒害物

例句与用法：

Help has been too little and too late or too far from where it was most needed. The flood-gates of famine and pestilence are already open.

援助是那么少，那么晚，要不就是离急需的地区那么远。这么一来饥荒和瘟疫就已经泛滥成灾了。

A pestilence was raging in that area.

瘟疫正在那个地方流行。

英英解释:

名词 pestilence:

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

同义词：plague, pest, pestis

any epidemic disease with a high death rate

同义词：plague, pest

a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of

同义词：canker