blight

1. N-VAR You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things. 禍因

This discriminatory policy has really been a blight on America. 這項歧眡政策一直以來確實是美國的一個禍因。

2. V-T 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. 使損害; 使 (地區) 遭殃

An embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground. 他的事業還未起步，就差點因一次難堪的失誤斷送了。

...thousands of families whose lives were blighted by unemployment. …生活遭失業打擊的數以千計的家庭。

3. N-UNCOUNT Blight is a disease which makes plants dry up and die. 枯萎病

All you can do to prevent potato blight is keep an eye on your crops. 爲預防馬鈴薯枯萎病你惟一能做的就是畱意你的莊稼。