scourge
noun /skɜːdʒ/
/skɜːrdʒ/
- [usually singular] scourge (of somebody/something) (formal) a person or thing that causes trouble, difficulty or mental pain
祸害；祸根；灾害 - the scourge of war/disease/poverty
战争／疾病／贫穷之苦 - Inflation was the scourge of the 1970s.
通货膨胀曾是 20 世纪 70 年代的祸患。
- He is well-known as a scourge of the Establishment.
众所周知，他是当权派的祸害。 - The Green Party sees the motor car as a scourge on society.
绿党认为汽车是社会的祸害。 - freeing the world from the scourge of nuclear weapons
使世界免受核武器的祸害 - taking action against the growing scourge of hunger
采取行动消除日益严重的饥饿祸害
- the scourge of war/disease/poverty
- a whip used to punish people in the past
（旧时用作刑具的）鞭子
词源Middle English: shortening of Old French escorge (noun), escorgier (verb), from Latin ex- ‘thoroughly’ + corrigia ‘thong, whip’.