pestilence

参见：Pestilence

英语

词源

源自中古英语，源自古法语，源自拉丁语 pestilentia (“瘟疫”)，源自pestilens (“感染的，不健康的，有害的”)。等价于pestilent +‎ -ence。

发音

• IPA^(帮助)：/ˈpɛstələn(t)s/, /ˈpɛstɪlən(t)s/, /ˈpɛstlən(t)s/

• （英国）音频

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名词

pestilence (可数 和 不可数, 复数 pestilences)

1. 瘟疫

   近义词： murrain

   • 1611, King James Translators, Psalms 91:5-6:

     Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

     Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 2

     "Take it, Christian dogsǃ take the palaces, the gardens, the mosques, the abode of our fathers - take plague with them; pestilence is the enemy we fly; if she be your friend, hug her to your bosoms. The curse of Allah is on Stamboul, share ye her fateǃ"

   • 1831 7月 15, “Of the Blood”, 出自 Western Journal of Health‎^[1], 卷 4, 期 1, L. B. Lincoln，页号 38:

     It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.

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   • 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

     The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when they seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.

2. (古旧) 道德败坏的东西，扰乱社会公序良俗的东西

相关词汇

• pest
• pesticide
• pestilent

延伸阅读

• “pestilence”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
• “pestilence”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587

法语

词源

源自古法语 pestilence，借自拉丁语 pestilentia。

发音

• IPA^(帮助)：/pɛs.ti.lɑ̃s/

• 音频

  （文档）

名词

pestilence f (复数 pestilences)

1. (古旧或书面) 瘟疫
2. 非常刺鼻的臭味

   近义词： infection、puanteur

衍生词汇

• pestilentiel

延伸阅读

• 查看“pestilence”在le Trésor de la langue française informatisé（《法语数字化宝库》）中的释义。

古法语

名词

pestilence f (间接格复数 pestilences, 主格单数 pestilence, 主格复数 pestilences)

1. 瘟疫