查询词典 pestiferous

The den upon which his eye now rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid.

他眼睛现在注视的那个破烂住处却是丑陋、腌臜、恶臭难闻、黑暗、污秽的。

Plato in his Laws esteems nothing of more pestiferous consequence to his city than to give young men the liberty of introducing any change in their habits, gestures, dances, songs, and exercises, from one form to another; shifting from this to that, hunting after novelties, and applauding the inventors; by which means manners are corrupted and the old institutions come to be nauseated and despised.

柏拉图在他的《法律篇》中指出，如果让年轻人在服装、姿态、跳舞、唱歌和体育诸方面任意地追逐新潮，标新立异，改头换面，以花样翻新者为楷模，那么，这个城邦所受之害，远远甚于瘟疫；过去的传统和习俗会因此受到蔑视而被破坏。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。