esca
esca — 名詞
1. a disease that attacks grapevines from the inside, caused by several types of fu
葡萄蔓割病
葡萄樹的真菌病害
a disease that attacks grapevines from the inside, caused by several types of fungus living in the wood. It makes dark marks appear on the leaves and can slowly kill the plant.
The vineyard owner in Tuscany lost thirty old vines to esca during the dry summer.
托斯卡尼的葡萄園主人去年乾燥的夏季因蔓割病失去了三十株老葡萄藤。
collocation: lost ___ to esca
Soraya, an agricultural inspector, identified esca in several vineyards near Santiago.
農業檢查員 Soraya 在聖地牙哥附近的幾座葡萄園中發現了蔓割病。
verb pattern: identify / detect esca
Meera, a plant pathologist, studied the spread of esca in French vineyards for ten years.
植物病理學家 Meera 花了十年時間研究蔓割病在法國葡萄園中的傳播。
Rodrigo sprays his grapevines with a protective fungicide to keep esca from taking hold.
Rodrigo 為他的葡萄藤噴灑保護性殺菌劑，以防止蔓割病擴散。
The winery replaced all infected vines after esca destroyed nearly half of the oldest section.
在蔓割病毀掉將近一半最老區塊的葡萄藤後，這家酒莊更換了所有受感染的植株。
- black measles
the informal common name for the same disease, more descriptive of the leaf symptoms
用法筆記
Esca is a technical term used mainly in viticulture and plant pathology. The same disease is also called black measles. It usually affects older vines and progresses slowly over several years.