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A bane is the thing that keeps making your life harder or sadder. It is not a one-day nuisance. It is the trouble that comes back: a noisy street, a slow computer, a class that always catches you out.
A bane Bane is the thing that keeps making your life harder or sadder是那個一直讓你生活變得更難、更難過的東西。 It is not a one-day nuisance這不是只煩一天的小麻煩。 It is the trouble that comes back是那種一直反覆出現的麻煩： a noisy street, a slow computer, a class that always catches you out像是吵鬧的街道、很慢的電腦，或總是考倒你的一門課。
People love the set phrase "the bane of my existence," meaning the thing that spoils their whole life — though they often say it with a small laugh, not as if they were dying. The word feels a little old and a little big, so you meet it more in writing and careful talk than in fast chat.
People love the set phrase大家很愛用這個固定說法 "the bane of my existence,"「the bane of my existence」， meaning the thing that spoils their whole life意思是毀了他們整個人生的那個東西—— though they often say it with a small laugh, not as if they were dying不過通常是笑著說，不是真的一副要死掉的樣子。 The word feels a little old and a little big這個字感覺有點老、有點誇張， so you meet it more in writing and careful talk than in fast chat所以比較常出現在文章和講究的談話裡，而不是隨口聊天。
Though actually, bane once meant a killer, or a poison. That darker job still hides in plant names such as wolfsbane. In ordinary talk now, almost nobody means real death.
Though actually不過實際上， bane once meant a killer, or a poisonbane以前指的是殺手，或是毒藥。 That darker job still hides in plant names那個比較黑暗的意思還藏在一些植物名字裡 such as wolfsbane像是wolfsbane（烏頭，一種毒草）。 In ordinary talk now現在日常講的時候， almost nobody means real death幾乎沒有人是真的在講死亡。
They mean, this is the story of my headaches. There is a rare verb built from the noun; the noun is the one you need.
They mean他們的意思是， this is the story of my headaches這就是讓我頭痛的那些事。 There is a rare verb built from the noun有一個從這個名詞造出來、很少見的動詞； the noun is the one you need但你需要的是這個名詞。
組成From Old English bana, a person or thing that causes death, from an older Germanic word for a killer. That probably goes back, a long way, to a root meaning to strike or slay. Today's milder "source of trouble" grew out of that start. The verb comes from the noun.
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Banename
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A surname.
banenoun詞源 1/beɪn/
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A cause of misery or ruin.
- the bane of one’s existence
- Money, thou bane of bliſſe, & ſourſe of vvo, / VVhence com'ſt thou, that thou art ſo freſh and fine? / I knovv thy parentage is baſe and lovv: / Man found thee poore and dirtie in a mine.
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archaicChiefly in the names of poisonous plants or substances: a poison.
- For my part I would rather counſell you to deſtroy your Rattes and Miſe with Traps, Banes, or Weeſels: for beſides the ſluttiſhneſſe & lothſomeneſſe of the Catte (you know what ſhe layes in the Malt heape) ſhe is moſt daungerous and pernicious among children, as I mee ſelf haue had good experience.
- In dairie no cat, / Laie bane for a rat. / […] / Take heede how thou laieſt, the bane for the rats, / for poiſoning ſeruant, thy ſelfe and thy brats.
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Misery, woe; also, doom, ruin; or physical injury, harm.
- Hath ſome fond lover tic'd [i.e., enticed] thee to thy bane? / And vvilt thou leave the Church, and love a ſtie?
- He finds out, soon enough for his weal and his bane, that he is stronger than Nature: and right tyrannously and irreverently he lords it over her, clearing, delving, dyking, building, without fear or shame.
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dialectalbiologymedicinenatural-sciencesA disease of sheep in which breakdown of tissue occurs; rot.
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obsoleteA person or thing that causes death or destruction; a killer, a murderer, a slayer.
- We haue alſo had experience yͭ the deſire of a kingdõe [kingdome] knoweth no kindred. The brother hath bene the brothers bane.
- Let Rome her ſelfe bee bane vnto her ſelfe, / And ſhee vvhome mightie kingdomes curſie [curtsey] too, / Like a forlorne and deſperate caſt avvay, / Doe ſhamefull execution on her ſelfe.
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obsoleteDeath; destruction; (countable) an instance of this.
- I vvill not be affraid of Death and Bane, / Till Birnane Forreſt come to Dunſinane.
- [I]f now again intoxicated and moaped with theſe royal, and therefore ſo delicious becauſe royal rudiments of bondage, the cup of deception, ſpiced and tempered to their bane, they ſhould deliver up themſelves to theſe glozing words and illuſions of him, vvhoſe rage and utmoſt violence they have ſuſtained, and overcome ſo nobly.
baneverb詞源 1/beɪn/
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archaicTo physically injure (someone or something); to harm, to hurt.
- Think when thou ſéeſt the baite whereon is thy delite, / That hidden Hookes are hard at hande to bane thee when thou bite.
- Novv if a ſhepherd knovv not vvhich graſs vvill bane, or vvhich not, hovv is he fit to be a ſhepherd? VVherefore the Parſon hath throughly canvaſſed al the particulars of humane actions, at leaſt thoſe vvhich he obſerveth are moſt incident to his Pariſh.
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archaicTo cause (someone) misery or ruin; to socially or spiritually injure (someone).
- It [covetousness] annoyeth our Phiſitions, it infecteth our Diuines, it choaketh our Lawiers, it woundeth our Farmers, it baneth our Gentlemen, it murdereth our Tradeſmen, it bewitcheth our Merchants, it ſtingeth our Marriners. Oh couetouſneſſe, couetouſneſſe: it is the poyſon of all things, the wound of Chriſtianitie, the bane of all goodneſſe.
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dialectalbiologymedicinenatural-sciencesTo cause (sheep) a disease, especially the rot (“a disease in which breakdown of tissue occurs”).
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obsoleteTo kill (a person or animal), especially by poison.
- Aconit is of two ſortes (as Dioſcorides writeth) the one is named Aconitum Pardalianches, that is to ſay, Aconite that baneth, or killeth Panthers.
- VVhat if my houſe be troubled vvith a Rat, / And I be pleas'd to giue ten thouſand ducats / To have it baind?
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。