1British A place or area marked by a particular trouble or concern.
麻烦频发地区
an unemployment black spot
失业高发地区。
an accident black spot
事故多发地区。
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The route map even identifies travel black spots on the way.
They overspeed and overtake what they consider slow vehicles at any point, even at areas known as black spots.
Safety groups have claimed the single-carriageway stretch is one of Scotland's worst accident black spots.
The programme is popular in rural employment black spots where participants play a social as well as an economic role in their community.
Health and education workers are battling hard to rid the city of its unwanted title as one of the country's worst teenage pregnancy black spots.
This road has many accident black spots particularly around the Dromore west area.
The figure itself has served for several flattering headlines and will do the job when touring economic black spots.
The Police Authority keeps stating that speed cameras are always visible and only placed in accident black spots.
You see the skid marks, you see the crosses next to the road, but nothing is being done, these accident black spots will not be eliminated.
The Gazette has been campaigning for six months to get improvements made on the dangerous road, which has a number of black spots.
The aim is for this equipment to be backed-up by real time CCTV focusing on the worst traffic black spots.
In short, these areas are now among the worst pollution black spots in our community.
Shocking statistics released this week have indicated that this town is among the country's top accident black spots.
Members of the town council said they were pleased to see that levels of pollution were falling in pollution black spots in the town.
Litter and too much of it led to the slide in the town's placing with school areas highlighted in particular as black spots.
The operation will also pay particular attention to accident black spots along the routes.
He called for motorists to be more considerate at many of the area's traffic black spots so jams were not made worse by drivers behaving badly.
Transport sites, recreation areas and schools are common litter black spots.
I am all in favour of the use of cameras in genuine accident black spots or where it can be seen that there is real danger to life from speeding.
The police, however, assure us that the mobile cameras are only used at accident black spots and not as a means of raising money.
2mass nounA fungal or bacterial disease of plants, especially roses, producing black blotches on the leaves.
（植物）黑斑病
Rose black spot is caused by the fungus Diplocarpon rosae, subdivision Ascomycotina
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To prevent black spot from infecting new plants, spray with a synthetic chemical fungicide once every 10 days, starting in midspring.
Neem oil also prevents powdery mildew and black spot.
Many popular roses are also susceptible to three fungal diseases, whose names black spot, mildew, and rust are descriptive of their appearance on rose leaves.
A soaker hose waters the base of every plant, thereby minimizing black spot and mildew problems that often arise from wetting the leaves.
Some rose varieties are especially prone to black spot and require regular spraying to keep the plants vigorous.
Definition of black spot in US English:
black spot
nounˌblæk ˈspɑtˌblak ˈspät
A disease of plants, especially of roses, producing black blotches on leaves.
（植物）黑斑病
Example sentencesExamples
Neem oil also prevents powdery mildew and black spot.
A soaker hose waters the base of every plant, thereby minimizing black spot and mildew problems that often arise from wetting the leaves.
Some rose varieties are especially prone to black spot and require regular spraying to keep the plants vigorous.
Many popular roses are also susceptible to three fungal diseases, whose names black spot, mildew, and rust are descriptive of their appearance on rose leaves.
To prevent black spot from infecting new plants, spray with a synthetic chemical fungicide once every 10 days, starting in midspring.