plague spot

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A spot on the skin that is characteristic of the plague or of a similar disease.
    — But no plague-spot appeared, and when Steb woke up in the afternoon and demanded something to eat, it was pretty evicent that he was merely suffering from a feverish cold.
  2. A location where plague is active.
    — He notes that South Elmham deanery 'appears to have been a plague spot', but regrettably he supplies no reason for its unenviable condition.
  3. A location that is a plague or scourge; a place of corruption and degeneracy. figuratively
    — Suffice it that all that is most worthless in Europe may be seen gathered round the gaming-tables at Monte Carlo. The artist who did these drawings has been there. Well, I thank Heaven we have no such plague-spot in this fair England of ours.

词形变化

plague spots plural
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