blight
1.N-VAR 可变名词破坏因素；祸根；阴影 You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
【搭配模式】：usu with supp
This discriminatory policy has really been a blight on America...
这项歧视性政策确实成了美国的一大祸根。
Manchester still suffers from urban blight and unacceptable poverty.
曼彻斯特仍然受到城区脏乱和严重贫困问题的困扰。
2.VERB 动词破坏（生活）；使（希望）破灭；摧毁；损毁 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.
【语法信息】：V n
【语法信息】：V-ed
An embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground.
一个令人难堪的疏忽几乎毁掉了他还没有起步的事业。
...thousands of families whose lives were blighted by unemployment.
成千上万因为失业而难以维持生计的家庭
...a strategy to redevelop blighted inner-city areas.
改建破败不堪的旧城区的策略
3.N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词（植物的）枯萎病 Blight is a disease which makes plants dry up and die.
【搭配模式】：also N in pl
