blight /blaɪt/ CET6+ ( blighting, blighted, blights )

• 1. 

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

  例：

  This discriminatory policy has really been a blight on America.

  这项歧视政策一直以来确实是美国的一个祸因。

• 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. 使损害; 使 (地区) 遭殃

  例：

  An embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground.

  他的事业还未起步，就差点因一次难堪的失误断送了。

  例：

  ...thousands of families whose lives were blighted by unemployment.

  …生活遭失业打击的数以千计的家庭。

• 3. 

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

  例：

  All you can do to prevent potato blight is keep an eye on your crops.

  为预防马铃薯枯萎病你惟一能做的就是留意你的庄稼。