a cause of great distress or annoyance 祸根,灾星 the telephone was the bane of my life. 电话是我生活的灾难。 ■(archaic)something, typically poison, which causes death (古)(致命的)毒物
派生 baneful adjective
(archaic)(古)
语源
Old English bana 'thing causing death, poison', of Germanic origin