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。
• 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。
• 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。
• People are paying attention to the crime of prevention and treatment of infectious disease as the SARS is ravaging on the earth.
  “非典型性肺炎”的肆虐引起大家对于与传染病防治有关的犯罪的重视。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。