SPOILto spoil or damage something, especially by preventing people from doing what they want to do 损害,妨害;使〔某人〕遭遇挫折
a disease which, though not fatal, can blight the lives of its victims
虽不致命却会妨害患者生活的一种疾病
a country blighted by poverty
一个受贫穷困扰的国家
—blightedadjectiveadj
blighted hopes
破灭的希望
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blight• Many considered the Booker Washington area hopelessly blighted.• The atmosphere was being poisoned, every green thing blighted, and every streamfouled with chemicalfumes and waste.• Despite such inside knowledge, the opening passages were racked with nervousness and blighted by a series of up-and-unders.• Life may be regarded as an austerestruggle, blighted by fate, where only the rich and the luckyfare well.• David and Barbara Owen say the property is blighted by plans for a bypass just yards away.• The country is blighted by poverty.• Rusty cans and plasticwrappers are blighting our wilderness areas.• No one kept track of exactly how many were mistreated, but several thousand deaths blight the record of Ferdinand and Isabelia.