Pest

(noun.) any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; 'he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests'; 'many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides'.

(noun.) a persistently annoying person.

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• Pasteur took up the study of anthrax in 1877, verified previous discoveries, and, as we shall see, sought means for the prevention of this pest. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I was a nuisance, an incumbrance, and a pest. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• You can think of them as arrangements by which the red herring is turned from a pest into a benefit. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• What have these pests of the earth been doing to _you_? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.

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