blight

英 [bla?t] 美[bla?t]

CET6+GRE低頻詞擴展詞匯

第三人稱單數:?blights;過去式:?blighted;過去分詞:?blighted;現在分詞:?blighting;

1. 見不到光就枯萎.
2. 不被光照，曬不到太陽的植物就會枯萎（因為沒有光合作用）。

blight 妨害

詞源不詳，該詞來自于農業用語，原指植物葉上的斑點，可能同blemish, 斑點。-ght, 拼寫模仿eight, fight, light, night 等。

blight: blight: [17] Blight appeared out of the blue in the early 17th century in agricultural and horticultural texts, and its origins are far from clear. It has, however, been speculated that it may be connected with the Old English words bl?ce and bl?cthu, both terms for some sort of itchy skin condition such as scabies. These in turn are probably related to Old English bl?can ‘bleach’, the link being the flaky whiteness of the infected skin.

In Middle English, bl?cthu would have become *bleht, which could plausibly have been the source of blight. A related piece in the jigsaw is blichening ‘blight or rust in corn’, found once in Middle English, which may have come ultimately from Old Norse blikna ‘become pale’.
=> bleach
blight (n.): 1610s, origin obscure; according to OED it emerged into literary speech from the talk of gardeners and farmers, perhaps ultimately from Old English bl?ce, bl?ceu, a scrofulous skin condition and/or from Old Norse blikna "become pale." Used in a general way of agricultural diseases, sometimes with suggestion of "invisible baleful influence;" hence figurative sense of "anything which withers hopes or prospects or checks prosperity" (1828). Compare slang blighter. Urban blight attested by 1935.
blight (v.): "afflict with blight," 1660s (implied in blighted), from blight (n.). Figurative use by 1712. Related: Blighted; blighting.

1. Manchester still suffers from urban blight and unacceptable poverty.: 曼徹斯特仍然受到城區臟亂和嚴重貧困問題的困擾。

2. This discriminatory policy has really been a blight on America.: 這項歧視性政策確實成了美國的一大禍根。