Blight

(noun.) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting.

(noun.) a state or condition being blighted.

(verb.) cause to suffer a blight; 'Too much rain may blight the garden with mold'.

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• There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Contempt fell cool on Mr. Rochester--his passion died as if a blight had shrivelled it up: he only asked--What have _you_ to say? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• There was a sense of blight in the air; the flowers were drooping in the garden, and the ground was parched and dewless. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Such a marriage would irretrievably blight my son's career, and ruin his prospects. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The blight, I believed, was chiefly external: I still felt life at life's sources. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• What Richard would have been without that blight, I never shall know now! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Lord strike a blight upon it,' I says, wotever it was I went for, 'if it ain't for him! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Give my love to your aunt, George dear, and implore her not to curse the viper that has crossed your path and blighted your existence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to wither the blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, cannot be renewed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• And yet, from the very first day of our wedding, you came and blighted it. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Either it is blighted in the bud, or has got the smother-fly, or it isn't nourished. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I am simply blighted--like a damaged ear of corn--the business is done and can't be undone. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• There was something in this simple memento of a blighted childhood, and in the tenderness of Mrs Boffin, that touched the Secretary. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Our ice boats cut and break the ice of the river, and through the water beneath our boats daily ply their way to and fro, independent of winter and its blighting blasts. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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