单词pestilence
n.: 瘟疫
网络: 传染病；疠；疫疠
瘟疫:
any infectious disease that spreads quickly and kills a lot of people
恶性流行病
伤风败德之事
祸害,洪水猛兽〔指学说等〕
传染病
腺鼠疫
鼠疫;恶疫,时疫,流行病
致死性流行病瘟疫
复数：pestilences
n.plagueepidemicdiseasevirusbubonic plague
My wife and I raced out of Philadelphia as if fleeting a pestilence, only to run into dense shore-bound traffic.
我和妻子像逃避瘟疫一样风驰电掣般驶出费城，结果却陷入前往海滨的稠密拥挤的车流之中。
Ironically, Europe, which had bequeathed the rabbit as a pest to Australia, acquired this man-made disease as a pestilence.
具有讽刺意味的是，欧洲把这种兔子作为有害动物传给澳洲，而欧洲自己却染上了这种人为的瘟疫般的疾病。
Even some scientists feared that Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards might have brewed pestilence in a petri dish.
甚至连某些科学家也担心，斯特普托及爱德华斯可能从培养皿中酿出了祸害。
For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation.
因为传染病与流行病，劫掠与污染，自然灾害与受饥饿的儿童是我们每一个国家的仇敌。
Ironically, Europe, which had bequeathed the rabbit as arest to Australia, acquired this man-made disease as a pestilence.
具有讽刺意味的是，欧洲把兔子作为有害的动物给了澳洲，却从澳洲染得了这种终于成为瘟疫的人造病。
May the Lord set the pestilence upon thee, until he consume thee out of the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.
上主必使你瘟疫缠身，直到将你由你要去佔领的地上完全消灭。
And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
又要击打这城的居民，连人带牲畜都必遭遇大瘟疫死亡。
Or if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and pour out my indignation upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast.
或者使那地发生瘟疫，以屠杀发洩我的愤怒，好从那里灭绝人和兽类。
They were crazed by the famine and pestilence of that bitter winter.
他们被那年严冬的饥荒与瘟疫逼疯了。
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches---Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Romantic poet.
权力就像肆虐的瘟疫，污染它所触及的一切---珀西.比希.雪莱，英国浪漫主义诗人。