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plagues
英 [pleɪɡz] 美 [pleɪɡz]

n.
- a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
  同义词： pestilence pest pestis
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
  同义词： pestilence pest
- a swarm of insects that attack plants
  "a plague of grasshoppers"
  
  同义词： infestation
- any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
- an annoyance
  "those children are a damn plague"
v.
- cause to suffer a blight
  同义词： blight
- annoy continually or chronically
  同义词： harass hassle harry chivy chivvy chevy chevvy beset molest provoke

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The East Timorese believe a curse plagues the families of people who die without a proper burial, so this ceremony is to symbolically put Fernando's soul to rest, and bring peace to his bereaved relatives.

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The Egyptian magicians who are initially able to mimic some of the plagues that are brought on by God--they are quickly bested, and Yahweh's defeat of the magicians is tantamount to the defeat of the gods of Egypt.

埃及的巫师最初只会模仿,上帝制造的瘟疫，巫师们随后就被打败了，耶和华战胜了巫师相当于,打败了埃及的众神。

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In the 1990s, Canada suffered from the same economic malaise that plagues the U.S. today: slow economic growth, heavy government spending and a rising national debt.

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Steven Pifer, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, says divisions between Ukraine's Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking populations are not nearly as significant as the ethnic separatism that plagues Georgia, and probably couldn't be used by Russia as leverage against Ukraine's government.

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Perhaps the reason why some people in Dr Chiriboga's staff are calling him "Moses" is not related to the ten plagues, but because he is bringing freedom (at least from the health system perspective) to his people.

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