mass noun
1- a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes (see BUBONIC PLAGUE) and sometimes infection of the lungs (pneumonic plague)鼠疫：
1.1
- count noun a contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people瘟疫。
1.2
- count noun an unusually large number of insects or animals infesting a place and causing damage天灾, 虫灾：
a plague of fleas.
蚤灾。
1.3
- in sing. a thing causing trouble or irritation烦恼事, 苦恼事, 烦扰事：
staff theft is usually the plague of restaurants.
员工偷盗常常是饭店苦恼的事。
1.4
- in sing. archaic used as a curse or an expression of despair or disgust〈古〉愿上天降灾难于…（用于诅咒或表达绝望或厌恶）：
a plague on all their houses!
愿灾难降临到他们的家庭。
[ORIGIN: in recent use echoing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet （iii. i. 94）.]
(plagues, plagued, plaguing)with obj.
1- cause continual trouble or distress to折磨, 烦扰, 打扰：
he has been plagued by ill health
他一直被病魔折磨着
the problems that plagued the company.
困扰这家公司的问题。
1.1
- pester or harass (someone) continually烦扰, 纠缠：
he was plaguing her with questions.
他老是用问题来烦她。
词源
late Middle English: Latin plaga 'stroke， wound'， probably from Greek (Doric dialect) plaga, from a base meaning 'strike'.