ravaging

英 [ˈrævɪdʒɪŋ]

美 [ˈrævɪdʒɪŋ]

v.  毁坏; 损坏; 严重损害
ravage的现在分词

现在分词：ravaging　

COCA.43582

柯林斯词典

• VERB 毁坏;摧毁;搞垮
  A town, country, or economy thathas been ravagedis one that has been damaged so much that it is almost completely destroyed.
  1. For two decades the country has been ravaged by civil war and foreign intervention.
     20年来，这个国家一直被内战外侵所蹂躏。
  2. ...the ravaged streets of Sarajevo.
     萨拉热窝那些被毁坏的街道
  3. ...Nicaragua's ravaged economy.
     尼加拉瓜被摧毁的经济

英英释义

noun

• plundering with excessive damage and destruction
  Synonym:devastation

adj

• ruinously destructive and wasting
  1. a ravaging illness

双语例句

• They had not shown much interest in the elephant when he was merely ravaging their homes, but it was different now that he was going to be shot.
  当那头大象在他们的家园里横行霸道时，他们对它不曾表现出这样浓厚的兴趣，但现在那家伙要被打死了，情况就有些不同了。
• Their share will grow& at a time when older diseases are still ravaging the poor.
  而且这一比例还在增长。同时老年疾病也在摧残着贫穷国家。
• Possibly the greater tragedy, however, is the heroin epidemic ravaging a new generation of Kachin.
  然而，更大的悲剧可能是毁灭了年轻克钦人的***的泛滥。
• But where I come from one does not go around ravaging libraries!
  但我们的世界没人会破坏蹂躏一个图书馆。
• ATLANTA& President Obama on Tuesday challenged world powers to accelerate the global response to the Ebola outbreak that is ravaging West Africa, warning that unless health care workers, medical equipment and treatment centers were swiftly deployed, the disease could take hundreds of thousands of lives.
  亚特兰大&美国总统奥巴马周二敦促世界大国加快对于肆虐西非的埃博拉疫情的反应速度，并警告说如果医护人员、医疗设备及治疗中心不被迅速部署，这种疾病将夺去数以万计的生命。
• War is raging in the Middle East. Disease, in the form of the Ebola virus, is ravaging parts of Africa.
  埃博拉病毒在非洲的部分地区肆虐。
• A rumor was spread that a plague was ravaging the land and that only by eating a special mooncake distributed by the revolutionaries could the disaster be prevented.
  一条瘟疫即将来袭，只有吃革命军分发的特殊月饼才能够抵御的谣言散播开来。
• The dam was originally built to contain the ravaging annual floods of the Yangtze and to provide China's growing economy with a cleaner source of electricity.
  建设三峡大坝的初衷是控制每年肆虐的长江洪水，并为中国不断增长的经济提供清洁的电力来源。
• People living in north China have the practice of placing blocks of ice upon dung heaps to stall the insects from ravaging their homes.
  惊蛰这一天，住在中国北方的人们习惯把冰块放在粪堆上，防止昆虫在家中肆虐。
• Villagers have no choice but to use wood, coal or dung fires, raising the risk that young children will be killed by carboj-monoxide poisoning or a bad case of pneumonia ravaging weakened lungs.
  村民们除了用木头，煤或者是粪肥来烧火之外别无选择，这样会增加小孩子一氧化碳中毒死亡的危险，肺功能减弱，肺炎得病率增加。