plagued
困扰着,困扰,困扰的,多灾多难
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- : an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- : an infectious, epidemic disease caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, characterized by fever, chills, and prostration, transmitted to humans from rats by means of the bites of fleas.Compare bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, septicemic plague.
- : any widespread affliction, calamity, or evil, especially one regarded as a direct punishment by God: a plague of war and desolation.
- : any cause of trouble, annoyance, or vexation: Uninvited guests are a plague.
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plagued, pla·guing.
- : to trouble, annoy, or torment in any manner: The question of his future plagues him with doubt.
- : to annoy, bother, or pester: Ants plagued the picnickers.
- : to smite with a plague, pestilence, death, etc.; scourge: those whom the gods had plagued.
- : to infect with a plague; cause an epidemic in or among: diseases that still plague the natives of Ethiopia.
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How the 2021 Sundance Film Festival — and many of its films — reflected life in a time of plague.
The crown used the information to gauge the toll of the plague on its largest city and the relative safety of conducting royal business within city limits.
Throughout human history, we have been subjected to wave after wave of viral and bacterial plagues.
It’s unclear how the plague bacterium first reached Siberia or whether it caused widespread infections and death, Götherström says.
Reading Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save in the year of the plague.
Similar stories plague many parts of Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Asia.
Why is violence against women central to so many of the conflicts that plague the planet today?
Spread happens easily, however, and epidemics are propagated when the third form of plague occurs: pneumonia plague.
As I described in an article over the summer when the fatal case in China was diagnosed, plague has three distinct clinical forms.
The plague made a brief appearance in China earlier this year and continues in the U.S. with a few cases annually.
The great plague of this and the subsequent year broke out at St. Giles, London.
Garnache need not plague himself with vexation that his rash temper alone had wrought his ruin now.
A man was whipped through London for going to court when his house was infected by plague.
The plague at Smyrna committed great ravages; about 300 died daily for some time.
Those little Babcocks are sure to come, invited or not, and as surely would plague the life out of her.