blighted

基本解釋

Blighted stems often canker.
有病的莖往往潰爛。
The disease blighted oaks and elms.
疾病使櫟樹和榆樹枯萎。
Depend on my care to see that your youth is not blighted, or suffered to pass away in ungenial solitude; and of this be well assured, that if you love me as a father, I love you as a child.
——譯注］的后代，你放心吧，我一定注意照料你，不讓你的青春受到摧殘，不讓它在陰森孤獨(dú)中虛度過去，因?yàn)榧偃缒銗畚胰绺?，我也一定愛你如女?/li>
原聲例句
By the hundreds, Tampa's cigar factories closed, and Ybor City became a blighted slum.

It was said that there were great opportunities for younger railroads in the blighted areas.
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Last year's festivities were similarly blighted by violent clashes that left two people dead.
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Baluchistan, blighted by a low-level separatist insurgency, has been able to increase spending by only 20-30%.
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You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
If something blights your life or your hopes, it damages and spoils them. If something blights an area, it spoils it and makes it unattractive.
Blight is a disease which makes plants dry up and die.