vt. 烦扰 annoy (especially with repeated requests or questions)
vt. 给…造成麻烦或困难 cause trouble or difficult to sb/sth
英英释义
Noun
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
any epidemic disease with a high death rate
a swarm of insects that attack plants;
"a plague of grasshoppers"
any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
an annoyance;
"those children are a damn plague"
Verb
cause to suffer a blight;
"Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"
annoy continually or chronically;
"He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked" "This man harasses his female co-workers"
组词搭配
～+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
例句
用作名词(n.)
Plague came in the wake of earthquake.地震之后紧跟着就是瘟疫。
A great plague was then raging in the city.那时一场大瘟疫正在该城肆虐。
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。
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.)
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
