Ruinous
['ruːɪnəs] or ['ruɪnəs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project.
(a.) Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
(a.) Composed of, or consisting in, ruins.
安托万整理
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Destructive, pernicious, baneful, noxious, noisome, deleterious, injurious, calamitous.
埃尔伯特編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- His only hope was to plead again with May, and on the day before his departure he walked with her to the ruinous garden of the Spanish Mission. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The vices of levity and vanity necessarily render him ridiculous, and are, besides, almost as ruinous to him as they are to the common people. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Readers, can you conceive anything half so monstrous, half so ruinous to black-pudding men, so destructive to the rising generation? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Such a fiction is suicidal, ruinous, impious. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Ma's ruinous to everything. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The Rector was obliged to take up the money at a ruinous interest, and had been struggling ever since. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- One day, as he went prancing down a quiet street, he saw at the window of a ruinous castle the lovely face. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- If you are not guilty, have a care of appearances, which are as ruinous as guilt. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Houses in twos and threes pass by us, solitary farms, ruinous buildings, dye-works, tanneries, and the like, open country, avenues of leafless trees. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Even those Scotch banks which never distinguished themselves by their extreme imprudence, were sometimes obliged to employ this ruinous resource. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- That church, whose dark, half-ruinous turrets overlooked the square, was the venerable and formerly opulent shrine of the Magi. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It was merely ruinous to try to work her by conviction. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Presently we came to a ruinous old town on a hill, the same being the ancient Jezreel. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Jo lives--that is to say, Jo has not yet died--in a ruinous place known to the like of him by the name of Tom-all-Alone's. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It was their infatuated perseverance in an unjustifiable, a hopeless, a ruinous war, which had brought the nation to its present pass. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The Neapolitan tax, therefore, is not near so ruinous as the Spanish one. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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