Devastation
[,devə'steɪʃn]
解释:
(noun.) an event that results in total destruction.
(noun.) the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed; 'her departure left him in utter devastation'.
(noun.) the state of being decayed or destroyed.
贝琪校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
(n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.
校对:莱斯利
同义词及近义词：
n. Ravage, desolation, destruction, havoc, ruin, waste, pillage, rapine.
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例句:
- We have felt the fierce play of volcanic effort, lifting new continents of opportunity from the infertile sea, without any devastation of pre-existing fields of human toil and harvest. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- They had evidently been led to believe that the National troops carried death and devastation with them wherever they went. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Again, as to the devastation of Hellenic territory or the burning of houses, what is to be the practice? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Central Europe recovered steadily from the devastation of the Thirty Years War. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Darwin had many other instances of nature's devastations. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Central Europe did not fully recover from these robberies and devastations for a century. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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