一、详细释义:
n.
毁灭,崩溃,瓦解,没落 [U]
例句:
The vineyards were falling into ruin.
这些葡萄园日渐没落。
例句:
She wasn't going to let her plans go to ruin.
她不会让她的计划破产的。
破产 [U]
例句:
He provided against financial ruin by wise investment.
他投资有方以防破产。
例句:
These changes spell ruin for the company.
这些变化意味着该公司破产。
灭亡的原因,祸根
例句:
Women have been my ruin.
女人一直是我的祸根。
例句:
It was those people who conspired my ruin.
就是那些人共同谋划来毁掉我的
废墟,遗迹,断壁残垣 [C]
例句:
One dead child was found in the ruins almost two hours after the explosion.
爆炸发生将近两个小时以后,在废墟中发现了一个已经死亡的小孩。
例句:
There's only the mountain in this direction, and higher up an old ruin, an abandoned castle.
从这个方向望去只看得到这座山,以及更高处的一处废墟,一座废弃的城堡。
残余部分,残存部分
例句:
The new Turkish republic he helped to build emerged from the ruins of a great empire.
他帮助建立起的新土耳其共和国是从一个伟大帝国的废墟上发展起来的。
例句:
He stood very still, staring in at the ruins of his work.
他站在那里一动也不动,呆呆地看着他残余的作品。
v.
毁坏,摧毁,严重损害 [T]
例句:
My wife was ruining her health through worry.
忧虑严重损害了我妻子的健康。
例句:
Entire villages have been washed away. Roads and bridges have been destroyed and crops ruined.
这些村庄全部都被冲走了。道路和桥梁都被破坏了,农作物也全毁了。
使破产 [T]
例句:
In one way, he bade fair to ruin us.
从某一点上来讲,他倒真的要弄得我们破产。
例句:
I do not despise bankruptcies, believe me, but they must be those which enrich, not those which ruin.
相信我,我并不厌恶倒闭,但那必须是使人发财的倒闭而不是使人破产的倒闭。
二、词义辨析:
break,destroy,ruin,wreck,damage,spoil
这些动词均有“破坏,损坏”之意。break普通用词,指某物因被打破或撕破而受到破坏,可指有形或无形的破坏。destroy多指彻底地、毁灭性地破坏,含导致无用,不能或很难再修复的意味。ruin多指因外部原因而受到严重破坏或毁灭,侧重破坏的彻底性,也可用于引申意义。wreck侧重指船只、车辆、房屋等受到严重破坏或完全毁坏,也可指计划、健康受到损害。damage多指对无生命物体的损害,造成降低价值、破坏功能等后果。spoil强调不仅会削弱力量、精力或价值,而且会导致不可避免的毁灭。