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

• 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。
• A lack of laboratory equipment and technical expertise has left Botswana unable to find the cause of a fatal disease that is ravaging its largest and most important fishery.
  缺乏实验室设备和技术专家技能让博茨瓦纳无法找到一种致命疾病的原因，这种病正在破坏它的最大而且最重要的渔业。
• But Burkina Faso is not the only West African country struggling with the ravaging affects of the floods.
  但是布基纳法索并不是唯一一个受到洪水影响的西非国家。
• With Hurricane Sandy ravaging the east coast, Mr. Obama had a chance to show compassion to storm victims and deploy government resources to neighborhoods left in ruins.
  飓风桑迪在美国东海岸肆虐之际，奥巴马得以有会抚慰飓风灾民，并向被摧毁的居民区布置政府资源。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• This may not be the same with people that live in cities located in developing countries where heap of filth are common identity and features with ravaging poverty.
  这点可能和那些发展中国家很不一样，在发展中国家一堆堆的垃圾随处可见，贫穷也是其主要特点。
• 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。