N-VAR 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.
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。
VERB 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.
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
(植物的)枯萎病 Blight is a disease which makes plants dry up and die.
It's a great shame, he says, gesturing at the scar blighting the pristine forest in south-eastern Venezuela, cleared by thousands of small-scale, illegal miners in their hunt for gold. 这是一种巨大的耻辱,他指着那块破坏了委内瑞拉东南部原始森林的伤疤说道。为了淘金,数千家小规模非法矿商把这里夷为平地。
So ignoring these orders of love can lead to consequences for family members that may last for many generations, blighting peoples'lives and limiting their potential in the world. 因此失衡的爱的序列导致的结果会影响这个家庭成员的几代,破坏他们的生活并且限制潜力的发挥。
He perceived an instant that she did not know the blighting news. 他立即看出她还不知道这个失败的消息。
But the drugs problem is blighting its future. 但毒品问题耽误了它的前途。
That is why fears of an indecisive election result have been blighting the pound. 这就是一个悬而未决的政治选举所导致的对英镑的大的影响。
A Preliminary Studies on the Overwintering of Pepper Blighting Fungi 辣椒疫菌越冬规律的初步研究