devastate

美 [ˈdevəˌsteɪt]
英 ['devə.steɪt]
  • v.摧毁；彻底破坏；毁灭；使震惊
  • 网络毁坏；蹂躏；使荒芜
第三人称单数：devastates  现在分词：devastating  过去式：devastated  

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devastate
v.
1.
~ sth
彻底破坏；摧毁；毁灭to completely destroy a place or an area
The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city.
这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
2.
[oftpass]
~ sb
使震惊；使极为忧伤；使极为悲痛to make sb feel very shocked and sad

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全部全部,摧毁摧毁,彻底破坏彻底破坏,毁灭毁灭,使震惊使震惊,毁坏毁坏,蹂躏蹂躏,使荒芜使荒芜
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1.
Wide regions had been systematically devastate by the enemy or pulverised in the encounter of the armies.
大片大片的地区接连地遭受敌人的破坏，或在两军激战中沦为一片焦土。
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2.
Most female insects should have this sort of receptor including the kinds that spread disease and devastate crops .
大多数的雌性昆虫应该有这种接收器，包括那些传播疾病和毁坏庄稼的种类。
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3.
Martin Wolf described banking as "virtually the only business able to devastate entire economies" .
马丁-沃尔夫（MartinWolf）将银行业形容为“实质上是唯一能够拖垮整个经济的行业”。
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4.
Explosions like this would devastate life on Earth. For Jupiter, they were no more than a bee sting.
像这样的爆炸能摧毁地球上的生物，但对木星来说只不过像被蜜蜂螫了一下而已。
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5.
A trade war of the kind unleashed by the Smoot-Hawley tariff could devastate the entire world trading system.
《斯姆特-霍利关税法》引发的同类贸易战争可以摧毁全球贸易体系。
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6.
Promising a bit more aid is easier than dismantling food subsidies that favour Western farmers but devastate African ones.
允诺提供多一点的援助要比取消粮食补贴更加容易。粮食补贴惠及发达国家的农民，但对非洲农民来说则是灾难。
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That told us two things: that our earthquake must have been vast, Richter scale 9, to devastate part of Japan thousands of miles away.
这告诉我们两件事情：我们的地震大至芮氏规模9，蹂躏几千哩外的日本。
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Allowing these species to continue to come in and devastate our economy and ecology isn't an acceptable solution.
西玛说，“允许这些物种继续进入国内、摧毁我们的经济和生态是不能容忍的解决方案。”
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One of the first names on the team-sheet for the Netherlands, when fit, Arjen Robben has the power and pace to devastate any opponent.
阿尔扬·罗本是荷兰队中最耀眼的明星之一，只要保证身体无恙，他能用力量和速度将任何对手摧垮。
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Could it be possible that some future volcanic action would devastate nuclear facilities and release deadly radiation into the atmosphere?
将来的一些火山活动会摧毁核设备并且会向大气层释放致命辐射吗？
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