pestilence

/pes-tl-uhns/US // ˈpɛs tl əns //UK // (ˈpɛstɪləns) //

瘟疫,传染病,流行病,疾病

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
- : bubonic plague.
- : something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.

nounepidemic

Synonyms

We take our pets, pests and pestilence with us wherever we go, and we go everywhere.
This notion of pestilence as a “great equalizer” has remained in vogue ever since plague pop culture began.
In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine.
In the meantime, I do kind of hope he wins Iowa, so that he can spread some of that pestilence around the GOP.
The coded “proofs” are everywhere: Floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and pestilence.
Cats, the Times told us, are a pestilence akin to gypsy moths and kudzu.
I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.
Only in the sensational moments of famine, flood or pestilence was a general social effort called forth.
There is still mademoiselle, with her new-formed friends in Paris—may a pestilence blight them all!
And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, men and beasts shall die of a great pestilence.
But even an age of war and pestilence could be observed without torment from behind the protective shields of the Time Machine.

/pes-tl-uhns/US // ˈpɛs tl əns //UK // (ˈpɛstɪləns) //

瘟疫,传染病,流行病,疾病

n.名词 noun

1
- : a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
- : bubonic plague.
- : something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.

nounepidemic

Synonyms

We take our pets, pests and pestilence with us wherever we go, and we go everywhere.
This notion of pestilence as a “great equalizer” has remained in vogue ever since plague pop culture began.
In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine.
In the meantime, I do kind of hope he wins Iowa, so that he can spread some of that pestilence around the GOP.
The coded “proofs” are everywhere: Floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and pestilence.
Cats, the Times told us, are a pestilence akin to gypsy moths and kudzu.
I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.
Only in the sensational moments of famine, flood or pestilence was a general social effort called forth.
There is still mademoiselle, with her new-formed friends in Paris—may a pestilence blight them all!
And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, men and beasts shall die of a great pestilence.
But even an age of war and pestilence could be observed without torment from behind the protective shields of the Time Machine.