Ravage
['rævɪdʒ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (usually plural) a destructive action; 'the ravages of time'; 'the depredations of age and disease'.
手打:露西娅--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time.
(n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
埃塞雷德編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Ruin, spoil, waste, devastate, destroy, despoil, sack, ransack, desolate, pillage, plunder, strip, lay waste.
n. Ruin, waste, spoil, pillage, rapine, desolation, destruction, devastation, havoc.
格雷格整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Devastation, desolation, waste, pillage, plunder, sack, ruin, spoil
ANT:Sparing, conserving, preserving
SYN:Spoil, devastate, despoil, destroy, desolate, ransack, waste, ruin, overrun,plunder
ANT:Spare, conserve, preserve, indemnify
編輯:斯坦利
解釋/意思:
v.t. to lay waste: to destroy: to pillage.—n. devastation: ruin.—n. Rav′ager.
克劳迪娅手打
例句/造句/用法:
- In August, the plague had appeared in the country of England, and during September it made its ravages. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- What wonder then, in time of siege, want, extreme heat, and drought, that it should make unaccustomed ravages? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Attila's ravages in North Italy were checked by an outbreak of fever in 452. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We talked of the ravages made last year by pestilence in every quarter of the world; and of the dreadful consequences of a second visitation. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Hiding the ravages of care with a sickly mask of mirth, I have not informed you, this evening, that there is no hope of the remittance! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Her present visit to London tended to augment her state of inquietude, by shewing in its utmost extent the ravages occasioned by pestilence. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Much of the country was still suffering from the ravages of the Ephthalites and the consequent disorders. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Poland was ravaged, and a mixed army of Poles and Germans was annihilated at the battle of Liegnitz in Lower Silesia in 1241. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Clennam had been poring late over his books and letters; for the waiting-rooms of the Circumlocution Office ravaged his time sorely. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The frontier counties all along the continent having been frequently ravaged by the enemy, and greatly impoverished, are able to pay very little tax. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The canton of Underwald, in Switzerland, is frequently ravaged by storms and inundations, and it is thereby exposed to extraordinary expenses. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
整理:露丝