Shipwreck

['ʃɪprek] or ['ʃɪprɛk]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a wrecked ship (or a part of one).

(noun.) an accident that destroys a ship at sea.

(noun.) an irretrievable loss; 'that was the shipwreck of their romance'.

(verb.) destroy a ship; 'The vessel was shipwrecked'.

(verb.) cause to experience shipwreck; 'They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea'.

(verb.) suffer failure, as in some enterprise.

(verb.) ruin utterly; 'You have shipwrecked my career'.

手打:威利--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.

(n.) A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.

(n.) Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.

(v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest.

(v. t.) To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business.

編輯:普鲁登斯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Wreck, ruin, perdition, destruction, miscarriage, overthrow, subversion, demolition.

v. a. Wreck, strand, flounder, cast away.

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