Havoc
['hævək]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.
(v. t.) To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.
(n.) A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.
整理:帕斯夸里
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Ravage, devastation, destruction, desolation, waste, ruin, spoil, pillage, rapine, spoliation, slaughter, carnage.
校對:梅雷迪思
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Desolation, ruin, waste, wreck, ravage, demolition, destruction, devastation
ANT:Conservation, enhancement, enrichment, augmentation, development,productiveness, luxuriance, prosperity
伯娜丁整理
解釋/意思:
n. general waste or destruction: devastation.—v.t. to lay waste.—interj. an ancient hunting or war cry.
伯特校對
例句/造句/用法:
- What wonder, that this year, when as we are told, its virulence is unexampled in Asia, that it should have occasioned double havoc in that city? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The North Sea and the English Channel have been invaded by German submarines which have made great havoc among merchant ships. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- These mines can be thrown for a considerable distance and create havoc in the enemy’s trenches if the aim is true. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Lastly, that were it not for these _diverticula_, it would rage in the bowels of the earth much more furiously, and make greater havoc than it doth. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Many had gone down on both sides, but by far the greater havoc had been wrought in the ranks of the guards of Issus. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- He has now and then been a sad flirt, and cared very little for the havoc he might be making in young ladies' affections. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Splinters from the timber would have made havoc among the men behind. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- At his command havoc and rapine were let loose once more among the temples of the worship of Brahmah. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I placed myself before the glass, to contemplate the havoc which sickness and anxiety had made on my features, and sighed heavily. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- In 1648 the princes and diplomatists gathered amidst the havoc they had made to patch up the affairs of Central Europe at the Peace of Westphalia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The emigrants embarked by hundreds, and unfurling their sails with rude hands, made strange havoc of buoy and cordage. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
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