2VERB 破坏(生活);使(希望)破灭;摧毁;损毁 If something blights your life or your hopes, it damages and spoils them. If something blights an area, it spoils it and makes it unattractive. 破坏(生活);使(希望)破灭;摧毁;损毁
An embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground. [VERB noun]
一个令人难堪的疏忽几乎毁掉了他还没有起步的事业。
...thousands of families whose lives were blighted by unemployment. [VERB noun]
成千上万因为失业而难以维持生计的家庭
...a strategy to redevelop blighted inner-city areas. [VERB-ed]