Devastate

(verb.) overwhelm or overpower; 'He was devastated by his grief when his son died'.

校对:迈克尔

• Then let us enact this law also for our guardians:--that they are neither to devastate the lands of Hellenes nor to burn their houses. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The Jesuit accounts describe a country greatly devastated by perpetual feudal war. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Tibet was invaded and devastated by Mangu, and Persia and Syria invaded in good earnest. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He wanted Germany so crippled and devastated as never more to be able to stand up to France. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This same pestilence devastated China, as we shall note in § 4 of this chapter. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In wandering round the shattered walls and through the devastated interior, I gathered evidence that the calamity was not of late occurrence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• And nothing is so devastating, nothing--' 'Yes,' said Ursula humbly, 'you must have suffered. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They carried their raiding right down the Italian peninsula, devastating all Etruria. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But there was a devastating cynicism at the bottom of her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She was possessed by a devastating hopelessness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• To subjugate devastating disease is no longer a dream; the hope of abolishing poverty is not utopian. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

编辑:谢恩