单词 | ruin |
释义 | ruin[ruin]n. 毁灭, 推翻, 废墟vi. 毁灭, 衰败, 破坏, 破产, 堕落vt. 使毁灭, 毁坏, 使破产【经】 破产, 毁坏相关词组:bring sb to ruinbring ruin upon oneself ruin ru.in AHD: [r›“¹n] D.J. [6ru8!n]K.K. [6ru!n]n.(名词)1. Total destruction or disintegration, either physical, moral, social, or economic.毁灭,灭亡:肉体上、道德上、社会上或经济上的完全毁坏或粉碎2. A cause of total destruction.祸根:整体毁坏的原因3. The act of destroying totally.毁灭:整体破坏的作为4. A destroyed person, object, or building.捣毁的东西:被破坏的人、物体或建筑物5. Often ruins The remains of something destroyed, disintegrated, or decayed:常作 ruins 废墟,遗迹:被毁坏、瓦解或腐烂的某物的遗迹:studied the ruins of ancient Greece.研究古希腊遗迹v.(动词) ru.ined,ru.in.ing,ru.ins v.tr.(及物动词)1. To destroy completely; demolish.彻底破坏;毁灭2. To harm irreparably.弄坏,糟蹋:把…无可挽回地伤害3. To reduce to poverty or bankruptcy.没落,破产4. To deprive of chastity.使堕落,诱奸v.intr.(不及物动词)To fall into ruin.成为废墟,被毁灭语源:1. Middle English ruine 中古英语 ruine 2. from Old French 源自 古法语 3. from Latin ru&9{ºna} 源自 拉丁语 ru&9{ºna} 4. from ruere [to rush, collapse] 源自 ruere [猛冲,崩溃] 继承用法:ru“inable adj.(形容词)ru“iner n.(名词)参考词汇:1. ruin,raze,demolish,destroy,wreck2. These verbs mean to injure and deprive something—or, less often, someone—of usefulness, soundness, or value.这些动词的意思是伤害且使某物,有时是人失去用处、声音或价值。3. Ruin usually implies irretrievable harmbut not necessarily total destruction: Ruin 通常暗指无可挽回的伤害,但并不一定指完全毁灭: “You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine” (Arthur Conan Doyle).“你不会再象破坏我的生活一样破坏其他人的生活了” (亚瑟·柯南道尔)。4. Raze, to level to the ground,Raze 指夷为平地,5. demolish, to pull down or break to pieces,and the more generaldestroy, to tear down, can all imply reduction to ruins or even complete obliteration: demolish 指推倒或粉碎,destroy 的意义更广泛,指拆毁,拆卸。 这三个词都可指使变为废墟或彻底消失: “Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium” (Matthew Arnold).诗人和哲学家柯尔律治被鸦片的烟雾断送了” (马修·阿诺德) |
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