Ruin
['ruːɪn] or ['ruɪn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a ruined building; 'they explored several Roman ruins'.
(noun.) an event that results in destruction.
(noun.) an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction; 'you have brought ruin on this entire family'.
(verb.) fall into ruin.
(verb.) reduce to ruins; 'The country lay ruined after the war'.
(verb.) destroy or cause to fail; 'This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election'.
編輯:莉齐--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
(n.) Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes.
(n.) That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like.
(n.) The state of being dcayed, or of having become ruined or worthless; as, to be in ruins; to go to ruin.
(n.) That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.
(n.) To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.
(v. i.) To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.
伊丽莎白編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Destruction, discomfiture, overthrow, defeat, wreck, shipwreck, perdition, fall, downfall, prostration, subversion, undoing.[2]. Mischief, bane, pest.
v. a. [1]. Destroy, demolish, overthrow, subvert, overturn, overwhelm.[2]. Impoverish, bring to want, reduce to poverty.
校對:莫利
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Fall, destruction, defeat, overthrow, lapse, collapse, desolation, downfall,perdition, subversion, decay, decadence, prostration, dilapidation,disorganization
ANT:Rise, success, prosperity, salvation, rescue, recovery, stabilisation,conservation, regeneration, revivification, reparation, renascence,organization, construction
整理:胡安妮塔
解釋/意思:
n. a rushing or falling down violently: destruction: overthrow: that which destroys: the remains of a building demolished or decayed (usually in pl.): the state of being ruined: wreck material or moral.—v.t. to demolish: to destroy: to defeat: to impoverish: to bring to ruin: to undo: to spoil: to seduce debauch.—v.i. to run to ruin: to fall into decay: to do irreparable harm.—adj. Ru′inable (Bacon) capable of being ruined.—v.t. Ru′ināte (Shak.) to ruin to destroy: to demolish: to reduce to poverty.—v.i. (Spens.) to fall:—pr.p. ru′ināting; pa.p. ru′ināted.—adj. (obs.) falling to ruin: ruined.—ns. Ruinā′tion overthrow: subversion; Ru′iner.—adjs. Ru′iniform having the appearance of ruins; Ru′inous fallen to ruins: decayed: pernicious.—adv. Ru′inously.—n. Ru′inousness the state or quality of being ruinous: mischievousness.
編輯:露西尔
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of ruins, signifies broken engagements to lovers, distressing conditions in business, destruction to crops, and failing health. To dream of ancient ruins, foretells that you will travel extensively, but there will be a note of sadness mixed with the pleasure in the realization of a long-cherished hope. You will feel the absence of some friend.
手打:玛丽安
娱乐性解釋/意思：
v. To destroy. Specifically to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
錄入:沃尔特
例句/造句/用法:
- I happen to know that he paid seven hundred pounds to a footman for a note two lines in length, and that the ruin of a noble family was the result. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- You will ruin no more lives as you have ruined mine. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The house had stood on a tottering base for a dozen years; and at last, in the shock of the French Revolution, it had rushed down a total ruin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- As a selfish man will impoverish his family and often bring them to ruin, so a selfish king brings ruin on his people and often plunges them into war. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Then he was ashamed and was quiet and I went to sleep but, man, he's a ruin. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The pilgrims took what was left of the hallowed ruin, and we pressed on toward the goal of our crusade, renowned Jerusalem. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I can not conceive of such a thing as Genoa in ruins. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The village of Nunnely has been alluded to--its old church, its forest, its monastic ruins. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Most of the sands which we find on the beaches and in other places are the ruins of rocks which have come apart, usually as the result of the action of water. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The ruins of Caesar's Palace, Pompey's Pillar, Cleopatra's Needle, the Catacombs, and ruins of ancient Alexandria will be found worth the visit. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It ruins the stomach and makes the hand shake. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- This life is ruining him. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- In short, I began the process of ruining myself in the received style, like any other spoony. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I will lie here, and cling here, till rain, and hail, and lightning and storm, ruining on me, make me one in substance with them below. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- This performance must have delighted him to the very bottom of his soul, for he has boasted that his task in life is to aid in ruining le prestige de la culture bourgeoise. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I shall be ruined, Wegg! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- You will ruin no more lives as you have ruined mine. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The times are as tight as can be; everybody is being ruined; and I don't believe Lydgate has got a farthing. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Ruined by a fatal inheritance, and restored through me! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The gloomiest problem of this mysterious life was constantly before his eyes,--souls crushed and ruined, evil triumphant, and God silent. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The man who had discovered that it could be tilled died of the labour; the man who succeeded him in possession ruined himself in fertilizing it. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Go--leave me to my misery, boys, I am a ruined community. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
手打:梅格