Devastate
['devəsteɪt] or ['dɛvəstet]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) overwhelm or overpower; 'He was devastated by his grief when his son died'.
校對:迈克尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
錄入:雷蒙
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Ravage, pillage, plunder, sack, spoil, despoil, destroy, desolate, strip, lay waste.
整理:斯图
解釋/意思:
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.
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例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The Jesuit accounts describe a country greatly devastated by perpetual feudal war. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Tibet was invaded and devastated by Mangu, and Persia and Syria invaded in good earnest. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He wanted Germany so crippled and devastated as never more to be able to stand up to France. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This same pestilence devastated China, as we shall note in § 4 of this chapter. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 簡·愛.
- And nothing is so devastating, nothing--' 'Yes,' said Ursula humbly, 'you must have suffered. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- They carried their raiding right down the Italian peninsula, devastating all Etruria. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But there was a devastating cynicism at the bottom of her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She was possessed by a devastating hopelessness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- To subjugate devastating disease is no longer a dream; the hope of abolishing poverty is not utopian. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
編輯:谢恩