blight

malattia delle piante

Malattia che danneggia o fa morire rapidamente foglie, fiori o altre parti di una pianta.

In inglese semplice: A plant disease that quickly damages or kills leaves, flowers, or other parts.

• Blight destroyed the tomato plants.
• The farmer checked the leaves for signs of blight.
• Wet weather helped the blight spread through the crop.

Espressioni comuni: potato blight, tomato blight, blight on something

piaga, flagello

Qualcosa che danneggia gravemente un luogo, un’attività o un aspetto della vita.

In inglese semplice: Something that badly harms a place, activity, or part of life.

• The factory is a blight on the landscape.
• Poverty remains a blight on the community.
• He called corruption the greatest blight on their future.

Come si usa: a blight on something (Corruption is a blight on public life.)

Sinonimi: curse, scourge

Espressioni comuni: blight on something, a terrible blight

degrado urbano

Cattive condizioni di una zona cittadina con edifici danneggiati o vuoti, oppure una zona in queste condizioni.

In inglese semplice: The poor, ugly condition of a town area with damaged or empty buildings, or an area like this.

• Urban blight has spread across the district.
• Empty shops added to the blight in the town center.
• The council hopes new housing will reduce blight.

Sinonimi: urban decay

Espressioni comuni: urban blight, areas of blight, blight in something

tempo umido e nuvoloso

Tempo nuvoloso con molta umidità nell’aria.

In inglese semplice: Cloudy weather with a lot of water in the air.

• A damp blight hung over the fields.
• The old diary mentions days of blight and rain.
• They blamed the lingering blight for the wet harvest.

Espressioni comuni: humid blight, blight weather

rovinare, compromettere

Danneggiare gravemente la vita, le speranze o le possibilità di successo di qualcuno.

In inglese semplice: To seriously harm someone’s life, hopes, or chances of success.

• The injury blighted his career.
• Poverty has blighted many lives in this town.
• One mistake should not blight your whole future.

Sinonimi: ruin, spoil, damage

Espressioni comuni: blight someone’s life, blight someone’s prospects, blight the future

far ammalare, far appassire

Danneggiare o far morire una pianta attraverso una malattia.

In inglese semplice: To damage or kill a plant through disease.

• The fungus can blight young plants.
• Disease blighted the potato crop last year.
• Several trees were blighted during the wet summer.

Sinonimi: infect, damage

Espressioni comuni: blight the crops, blight a plant

ammalarsi, appassire

Per una pianta, essere colpita da una malattia che ne danneggia e fa morire alcune parti.

In inglese semplice: For a plant to become damaged by a disease that kills its parts.

• These vines rarely blight.
• The tomatoes blighted during the damp summer.
• Some potato varieties blight more easily than others.

Espressioni comuni: plants blight easily, vines blight quickly