pestilence
參見：Pestilence
英语[编辑]
词源[编辑]
源自中古英語，源自古法語，源自拉丁語 pestilentia (“瘟疫”)，源自pestilens (“感染的，不健康的，有害的”)。等价于pestilent + -ence。
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名词[编辑]
pestilence (可數 和 不可數，複數 pestilences)
- 瘟疫
- 近義詞： 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，頁號 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.
- (古舊) 道德败坏的东西，扰乱社会公序良俗的东西
相关词汇[编辑]
延伸阅读[编辑]
- “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[编辑]
词源[编辑]
源自古法語 pestilence，借自拉丁語 pestilentia。
发音[编辑]
名词[编辑]
pestilence f (複數 pestilences)
衍生词汇[编辑]
延伸阅读[编辑]
- 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[编辑]
名词[编辑]
pestilence f (間接格複數 pestilences，主格單數 pestilence，主格複數 pestilences)