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A pest is an insect or small animal that damages crops, food, or property, or spreads disease — like rats, , or certain insects. , 'pest' is also used for an person, especially someone who keeps bothering you, often said in a light, not-too-serious way about a mischievous child.
害蟲；討厭的人
組成From a Latin word, 'pestis,' meaning plague or disease.
同家族的字
- pesticideshares 'pest-'; '-cide' means killing
原始詞典資料8 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。
Pestname/pɛst/
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historicalOne of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
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The corresponding part of the current-day city of Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.
- On a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest.
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A county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest.
pestnoun/pɛst/
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archaicA pestilence, i.e. a deadly epidemic, a deadly plague.
- From the perspective of traditional Chinese culture, pests and famines are reflections of the current administration’s lack of moral values and deviation from divine will. The head of the administration (the emperor in the past) would then issue an edict to sincerely repent and correct his wrongdoings.
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Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
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An annoying person, a nuisance.
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An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.
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An invasive weed.
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。