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单词

scourge

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skɜːrdʒ
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释义

n. 灾祸;鞭子;苦难的根源 v. 折磨;鞭打;斥痛 [ 复数 scourges 第三人称单数 scourges 现在分词 scourging 过去式 scourged 过去分词 scourged ]

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They will scourge thee, the stony-hearted wretches!
他们会鞭打你,这些铁石心肠的坏蛋!
They tried to change the topic, but his fears were aroused, and he pursued it, "Will they scourge thee?"
她们试图改变话题,但他的恐惧被激起了,他继续说:“他们会折磨你们吗?”
Inflation was the scourge of the 1970s.
通货膨胀曾是20世纪70年代的祸患。

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It's carried in the bites of infected mosquitos,and it's probably our oldest scourge.We may have had malaria since we evolved from the apes.
He says slavery is morally wrong,calling it an ‘abomination’ and a ‘monstrous scourge.’He insists that ‘the extension of the evil must now be prevented,’
   We always hear that texting is a scourge.The idea is that texting spells the decline and fall
from Anatolia into Europe and the Mediterranean.Vermin were a major scourge of the seven seas.They ate provisions and gnawed at lines of rope,
and more hate tweets than I can even count.I was called an idiot, a traitor, a scourge,a cunt and an ugly man,
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