blight

葉枯病、胴枯病

葉や花などを急速に傷めたり枯らしたりする、植物の病気。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： potato blight, tomato blight, blight on something

災い、害悪

場所や活動、生活の一面に大きな害を及ぼすもの。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： a blight on something (Corruption is a blight on public life.)

類義語： curse, scourge

よく使う表現： blight on something, a terrible blight

都市の荒廃

建物が傷んだり空き家になったりして街が荒れた状態、またはその地域。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： urban decay

よく使う表現： urban blight, areas of blight, blight in something

湿った曇天

雲に覆われ、空気中の湿気が多い天気。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： humid blight, blight weather

台無しにする、損なう

人の人生や希望、成功の見込みに大きな害を与える。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： ruin, spoil, damage

よく使う表現： blight someone’s life, blight someone’s prospects, blight the future

病気で枯らす

病気によって植物を傷めたり枯らしたりする。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： infect, damage

よく使う表現： blight the crops, blight a plant

葉枯病にかかる

植物が、一部を枯らしてしまう病気にかかり傷む。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： plants blight easily, vines blight quickly