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小词详解 | ravage
ravage 英 [ˈrævɪdʒ] 美 [ˈrævɪdʒ]
When the music and newspaper industries were ravaged by the internet over a decade ago people feared the same fate would befall publishing.
十多年前音乐和报纸产业遭到互联网的劫掠时,人们害怕同样的命运将降临于出版业。
——《经济学人》With a nation on edge, ravaged by disease, hammered by economic collapse, divided over lockdowns and even face masks and now convulsed once again by race, President Trump’s first instinct has been to look for someone to fight.
在一个饱受疾病蹂躏和经济崩溃重创,因封锁甚至是口罩而分裂,如今又因种族问题而再次动荡的处于紧张状态的国家,特朗普总统的第一反应是找个人来斗一斗。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 造成严重和广泛的损害
在一个遭受内战重创的国家,他们不得不同一切困境做斗争。
In a country ravaged by civil war, they had to struggle against all kinds of adversity.
他们不得不默默忍受通货膨胀的恶果。
They had to grin and bear the ravages of inflation.他们敢于胜利的气魄经受住了时间的考验。
Their mettle to win has withstood the ravages of time.
1840年鸦片战争以后,中国逐步成为半殖民地半封建社会,国家蒙辱、人民蒙难、文明蒙尘,中华民族遭受了前所未有的劫难。
After the Opium War of 1840, however, China was gradually reduced to a semi-colonial, semi-feudal society and suffered greater ravages than ever before.
plunder: steal goods from a place or person, typically using force and in a time of war or civil disorder devastate: destroy or ruin raze: completely destroy (a building, town, or other settlement)