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

• But Saul was ravaging the church by entering house after house, dragging off both men and women, he committed them to prison.
  扫罗却残害教会，进各人的家，拉着男女下在监里。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• "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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。