Bane

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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    剋星,禍根[the S]

                      She is the bane of his life.

                      是她毀了他。

          2.    【文】災害;毀滅;死亡[U]

          3.    【古】毒藥,毒物(用於複合詞,如ratsbane)[U]





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



bane (n.)   

 

has two obsolete senses: "a cause of death, ruin, or irreversible harm" and "a deadly poison" (now Standard only in compounds such as ratsbane). 



Nowadays bane is used primarily to mean "a curse" or "a source of harm," as in She is the bane of my existence. But see also BALEFUL. 





Smoothly framing Hall's actions through the two media that were the bane of Nixon's career, Secret Honor mixes fact and fiction in a rambling yet compelling monologue suggesting Nixon was the victim of nefarious corporate greed as well as the paranoid, over-ambitious architect of his own downfall.





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