Plague

(noun.) an annoyance; 'those children are a damn plague'.

(noun.) any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God).

(noun.) any epidemic disease with a high death rate.

(noun.) 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.

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• Where was the plague? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• France, Germany, Italy and Spain, were interposed, walls yet without a breach, between us and the plague. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She would wander out at night to get food, and returned home, pleased that she had met no one, that she was in no danger from the plague. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The physician declared that he died of the plague. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• They were afraid of Egyptian plague and cholera. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• What a plague those creatures are--staring at me so! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It was whispered that he had died of the plague. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• If you have plagued him, he's sober and walks slowly, as if he wanted to go back and do his work better. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The case is, that I cannot be plagued with this child, any longer! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Was she as much plagued as herself to get tolerable servants? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• They are not in trouble like other men, neither are they plagued like other men. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I don't know anything about your plagued French! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I believe that more of my ill health is caused by them than by any one thing; and ours, I know, are the very worst that ever anybody was plagued with. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I won't be deceived and plagued and made a fool of. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• This is considered as a privileged place, and stands like the land of Goshen amid the plagues of Egypt. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Your house is so full of these little plagues, now, that a body can't set down their foot without treading on 'em. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The God sends down his angry plagues from high, Famine and pestilence in heaps they die. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Agriculture must have declined, and the population notably decreased through the plagues and distresses from which it had suffered. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He is like one of those plagues the priests tell us of. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• These two classes are the plagues of every city in which they are generated, being what phlegm and bile are to the body. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• She was a poor, empty-headed, spiritless woman--what you call a born drudge--and I was now and then not averse to plaguing her by taking Anne away. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• My cousins have been so plaguing me! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Begin to do something now by not plaguing his life out, said Meg sharply. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• And he jumped on the bus, and I saw his ugly face leering at me with a wicked smile to think how he'd had the last word of plaguing. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• There's nothing I like better than plaguing you--you're so like your mother, and I must do without it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The men got in the habit of plaguing him; and, finally, one day he said to the assembled experimenters in the top room of the laboratory: 'The next man that does it, I will kill him. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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