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

• 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。
• How do they evolve in response to changes in climate or ravaging disease?
  面对气候的变化或毁灭性疾病，他们是如何应对的？
• The crash had spilled a noxious defoliant into the planet's ecology, ravaging the native flora.
  这次坠毁将一种有害的落叶剂洒入星球的生态系统中，破坏着当地的植物群。
• 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。
• 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海洛因的泛滥。
• "Not till ye make amends for ravaging her virgin innocence!" says the old woman.
  ‘你糟蹋了我女儿的清白，除非你答应娶了她，我是不会放你出来的！’老太太说。
• 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。
• Genghis Khan's ravaging hordes razed entire villages, then used the corpses as moat-fill.
  成吉思汗的游牧部落大肆蹂躏，将整个村庄夷为平地，把死尸填满护城河。
• Australia isn't the only country dealing with ravaging floodwaters right now.
  现在，澳大利亚不再是唯一的一个和洪水猛兽作斗争的国家。
• Behind the hellish Ebola epidemic ravaging West Africa lies an agent that fittingly embodies the mad contradictions of a nightmare.
  在埃博拉疫情侵袭西非的背后有一个恰好能体现一场噩梦矛盾之处的载体。