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

• 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。
• 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。
• "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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 they have been in one place for3 weeks, ravaging the force floor from miles in all directions.
  但他们曾在一个地方逗留三周，从各个方向肆虐着这个承重板。
• 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。
• 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。