pests
pests — 名詞
- pestssingular
- pestsesplural
1. harmful insects or other small animals that ruin crops, stored food, or parts of
害蟲；害獸
會糟蹋作物或食物的蟲獸
harmful insects or other small animals that ruin crops, stored food, or parts of a building.
Gardeners covered the cabbage rows after white moth pests returned overnight.
白蛾害蟲一夜之間又回來了，園丁只好蓋住高麗菜田。
pests returned overnight
Tiny grain pests chewed through the sacks in Vivek's storage shed.
穀物害蟲把 Vivek 儲藏棚裡的袋子都咬破了。
pests in stored food
The farmer sprayed the bean leaves because red beetle pests were spreading.
農夫替豆葉噴藥，因為紅甲蟲這種害蟲正越來越多。
crop pests spreading
Kitchen pests had reached the flour tins before Elena noticed the holes.
等 Elena 注意到那些洞時，廚房害蟲早就鑽進麵粉罐了。
By midsummer, snail pests were eating every young plant near the fence.
到了盛夏，蝸牛害獸把籬笆旁的幼苗幾乎都吃光了。
- garden pests
- household pests
- control pests
- spray for pests
- crop pests
文法句型
control pests
pests on + crop
pests in + building
spray for pests
用法筆記
Common in farming, gardening, food-storage, and home-maintenance contexts. Distinguish from sense 2, where pests are annoying people, and from sense 3, which is an older disease meaning.
常見錯誤
2. people, often children, who keep bothering others and are difficult to ignore.
討厭鬼
老是煩人的人，常指小孩
people, often children, who keep bothering others and are difficult to ignore.
During the bus ride, the boys became pests and kept kicking seats.
公車上，那幾個男孩成了討厭鬼，一直踢座椅。
became pests + repeated behavior
At breakfast, Aoi said her cousins were pests because they grabbed her toast.
吃早餐時，Aoi 說她表親是討厭鬼，因為他們搶她的吐司。
were pests because they kept bothering
The campers called the older boys pests after three midnight pranks.
連三次半夜惡作劇後，營地裡的人都說那些大男孩是討厭鬼。
call someone pests
In class, two pests kept whispering jokes behind Linh's science book.
上課時，兩個討厭鬼一直躲在 Linh 的自然課本後面講悄悄話。
At the clinic, the toddlers were pests and pressed every button.
在診所裡，那群幼兒像一群討厭鬼，把每個按鈕都按了一遍。
- little pests
- such pests
- be pests all day
- schoolyard pests
- nuisances
broader and more neutral, and it can describe things as well as people
- brats
stronger and used mainly for badly behaved children
- troublemakers
usually suggests causing more serious problems than simple irritation
文法句型
be pests
be little pests
call someone pests
用法筆記
Usually describes repeated annoying behavior, not one small mistake. Distinguish from sense 1, which refers to harmful animals or insects, and from sense 3, which is an old disease use.
常見錯誤
3. deadly epidemic diseases, especially plague-like outbreaks mentioned in older wr
瘟疫；疫病
舊指致命的大規模傳染病
deadly epidemic diseases, especially plague-like outbreaks mentioned in older writing.
Old village records blame pests and famine for the empty farms.
老村莊的紀錄把空掉的農地歸咎於瘟疫與饑荒。
pests and famine
In the novel, deadly pests spread quickly through the crowded port.
在那本小說裡，致命瘟疫很快就傳遍了擁擠的港口。
historical disease sense
Medieval priests prayed when new pests reached the mountain towns.
中世紀的神父在新的瘟疫傳到山城時開始祈禱。
The king sent doctors south after reports of pests in the camps.
收到營地出現瘟疫的消息後，國王派醫生南下。
Chronicles describe winter pests that killed thousands across the region.
編年史記下那些冬季瘟疫，說它們害死了全區數千人。
- deadly pests
- pests and famine
- reports of pests
- pests spread through
文法句型
pests spread through + place
reports of pests
pests and famine
用法筆記
This sense is mostly found in older histories, literature, or formal writing. In modern everyday English, speakers usually say epidemics, outbreaks, or plague instead.
常見錯誤
同根字
常見搭配
名詞搭配
- garden pests
- household pests
- crop pests
常用片語
- control pests
- spray for pests
- keep pests away
介系詞搭配
- pests in [place]
- pests on [crop]