scourge
n. 鞭, 苦难根源, 灾祸 vt. 鞭打, 痛斥, 蹂躏
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释义与例句
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1.
A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
历史 工程 政治 军事He flogged him with a scourge.
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2.
A person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.
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A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
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比喻Graffiti is the scourge of building owners everywhere.
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1.
To strike (a person, an animal, etc.) with a scourge (noun etymology 1 sense 1) or whip; to flog, to whip.
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To drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.
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To punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.
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To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
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Of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).
苏格兰 比喻 及物 植物学 商务
词汇关系
词源
From Middle English scourge (“a lash, whip, scourge; affliction, calamity; person who causes affliction or calamity; shoot of a vine”), and then either: * from Anglo-Norman scorge, escorge, escurge, or Old French scurge, escourge, escorge, escorgiee, escurge (modern French escourgée (“(archaic) whip made of leather strips”)), either: ** from Vulgar Latin *excoriāta (“strip of hide; a scourge”), from Late Latin excoriāre, the present active infinitive of excoriō (“to strip the skin from, to skin”), from Latin ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + corium (“skin; hide, leather”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off, sever; to divide, separate”)); or ** from Latin ex- (intensifying prefix) + corrigia (“a whip”) (from corrigō (“to make right, correct; to reform”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to righten; to straighten”)); or * from Middle English scourgen (verb) (see etymology 2). Cognates Italian scuriada, scuriata
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