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单词 bane
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Definition of bane in English:

bane

noun beɪnbeɪn
  • 1usually in singular A cause of great distress or annoyance.

    祸根,灾星

    the telephone was the bane of my life

    电话是我生活的灾难。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Cell phones make it much easier to suffer through the brutal traffic jams that are the bane of city life around the world.
    • In fact the bane of my life was a cousin and his birthday parties.
    • His dyslexia - the bane of his life - meant that he found writing difficult, and he preferred giving papers at meetings.
    • Those bad tempered personnel manning counters in the revenue offices will no longer be the bane of citizens' existence.
    • You have been the bane of my life ever since you were born with your whining and your constant need of me!
    • They had to be counted, bagged and labelled and they were the bane of my life.
    • The problem of color description has been a bane to mineralogists.
    • That evil is malevolent violence, a curse that is the bane of our human existence.
    • I have to say that, as a mother, fancy dress is the bane of my life. This week my daughters require no fewer than four outfits, one each for a school event and two more for a party.
    • All I am to him is the bane of his existence, the blight of his life, the central focus of why he hates his job and wants to kill himself.
    • On the other hand there are the low waist pants - the bane of my life.
    • This was because opposable thumbs or not, buttons would forever be the bane of his life.
    • Despite the financial security an older man can offer younger women, their eccentricities can be the bane of her life.
    • The 73, the busiest bus-route in London, was the bane of my life when I lived in Stoke Newington.
    • This issue has absolutely been the bane of my life in this country for 32 years.
    • It was the bane of her life, or at least it was presently.
    • It's the bane of my life, and probably yours too.
    • When juvenile nuisance and disorder are the bane of so many neighbourhoods already, some people are not only fuelling this curse, but actually making a profit from it.
    • Critics are seen as the bane of writers' lives, torturing their intuitively wrought texts by dissection with a sharp set of surgical knives.
    • Even though he considered his older double the bane of his life, he seemed unable to ignore him.
    Synonyms
    scourge, ruin, death, plague, ruination, destruction
    torment, torture, menace, suffering, pain, distress, hardship, cross to bear, burden, thorn in one's flesh/side, bitter pill, affliction, calamity, despair, trouble, misery, woe, tribulation, misfortune, nuisance, pest, headache, trial, blight, curse, nightmare
  • 2archaic usually in singular Something, especially poison, which causes death.

    〈古〉(致命的)毒物

    Synonyms
    poison, toxin

Derivatives

  • baneful

  • adjective ˈbeɪnfəlˈbeɪnf(ə)l
    archaic
    • Harmful or destructive.

      the baneful effects of envy and jealousy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In many places in Britain, it was customary to light huge bonfires in the fields to ward off baneful influences, often accompanied by much partying.
      • Unlike most mayors, he saw that social problem solving goes beyond the province of experts, planners, and managers and that most baneful of concepts, ‘delivering services.’
      • Second, declarations about the baneful influence of popular culture gloss over the dearth of evidence supporting a causal link between watching portrayals of violence and engaging in violent behavior.

Origin

Old English bana 'thing causing death, poison', of Germanic origin.

Rhymes

abstain, appertain, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, Bahrain, blain, brain, Braine, Cain, Caine, campaign, cane, cinquain, chain, champagne, champaign, Champlain, Charmaine, chicane, chow mein, cocaine, Coleraine, Coltrane, complain, constrain, contain, crane, Dane, deign, demesne, demi-mondaine, detain, disdain, domain, domaine, drain, Duane, Dwane, Elaine, entertain, entrain, explain, fain, fane, feign, gain, Germaine, germane, grain, humane, Hussein, inane, Jain, Jane, Jermaine, Kane, La Fontaine, lain, lane, legerdemain, Lorraine, main, Maine, maintain, mane, mise en scène, Montaigne, moraine, mundane, obtain, ordain, Paine, pane, pertain, plain, plane, Port-of-Spain, profane, rain, Raine, refrain, reign, rein, retain, romaine, sane, Seine, Shane, Sinn Fein, skein, slain, Spain, Spillane, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, swain, terrain, thane, train, twain, Ujjain, Ukraine, underlain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, Verlaine, vicereine, wain, wane, Wayne

Definition of bane in US English:

bane

nounbeɪnbān
  • 1usually in singular A cause of great distress or annoyance.

    祸根,灾星

    the bane of the decorator is the long, narrow hall
    the depressions that were the the bane of her existence
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Even though he considered his older double the bane of his life, he seemed unable to ignore him.
    • The 73, the busiest bus-route in London, was the bane of my life when I lived in Stoke Newington.
    • All I am to him is the bane of his existence, the blight of his life, the central focus of why he hates his job and wants to kill himself.
    • This was because opposable thumbs or not, buttons would forever be the bane of his life.
    • It's the bane of my life, and probably yours too.
    • I have to say that, as a mother, fancy dress is the bane of my life. This week my daughters require no fewer than four outfits, one each for a school event and two more for a party.
    • Cell phones make it much easier to suffer through the brutal traffic jams that are the bane of city life around the world.
    • The problem of color description has been a bane to mineralogists.
    • That evil is malevolent violence, a curse that is the bane of our human existence.
    • You have been the bane of my life ever since you were born with your whining and your constant need of me!
    • This issue has absolutely been the bane of my life in this country for 32 years.
    • When juvenile nuisance and disorder are the bane of so many neighbourhoods already, some people are not only fuelling this curse, but actually making a profit from it.
    • Those bad tempered personnel manning counters in the revenue offices will no longer be the bane of citizens' existence.
    • It was the bane of her life, or at least it was presently.
    • Critics are seen as the bane of writers' lives, torturing their intuitively wrought texts by dissection with a sharp set of surgical knives.
    • Despite the financial security an older man can offer younger women, their eccentricities can be the bane of her life.
    • They had to be counted, bagged and labelled and they were the bane of my life.
    • On the other hand there are the low waist pants - the bane of my life.
    • His dyslexia - the bane of his life - meant that he found writing difficult, and he preferred giving papers at meetings.
    • In fact the bane of my life was a cousin and his birthday parties.
    Synonyms
    scourge, ruin, death, plague, ruination, destruction
    1. 1.1archaic Something, typically poison, that causes death.
      〈古〉(致命的)毒物
      Synonyms
      poison, toxin

Origin

Old English bana ‘thing causing death, poison’, of Germanic origin.

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