Devastate
['devəsteɪt] or ['dɛvəstet]
解释:
(verb.) overwhelm or overpower; 'He was devastated by his grief when his son died'.
校对:迈克尔--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
录入:雷蒙
同义词及近义词：
v. a. Ravage, pillage, plunder, sack, spoil, despoil, destroy, desolate, strip, lay waste.
整理:斯图
解释:
v.t. to lay waste: to plunder.—ns. Devastā′tion act of devastating: state of being devastated: havoc; Devastā′vit a waste of the estate of a deceased person by the executor.
柏格编辑
例句:
- Then let us enact this law also for our guardians:--that they are neither to devastate the lands of Hellenes nor to burn their houses. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The Jesuit accounts describe a country greatly devastated by perpetual feudal war. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Tibet was invaded and devastated by Mangu, and Persia and Syria invaded in good earnest. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He wanted Germany so crippled and devastated as never more to be able to stand up to France. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- This same pestilence devastated China, as we shall note in § 4 of this chapter. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In wandering round the shattered walls and through the devastated interior, I gathered evidence that the calamity was not of late occurrence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- And nothing is so devastating, nothing--' 'Yes,' said Ursula humbly, 'you must have suffered. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- They carried their raiding right down the Italian peninsula, devastating all Etruria. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But there was a devastating cynicism at the bottom of her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- She was possessed by a devastating hopelessness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- To subjugate devastating disease is no longer a dream; the hope of abolishing poverty is not utopian. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
编辑:谢恩