Ruin

(noun.) a ruined building; 'they explored several Roman ruins'.

(noun.) an event that results in destruction.

(noun.) an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction; 'you have brought ruin on this entire family'.

(verb.) fall into ruin.

(verb.) reduce to ruins; 'The country lay ruined after the war'.

(verb.) destroy or cause to fail; 'This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election'.

编辑:莉齐

• I happen to know that he paid seven hundred pounds to a footman for a note two lines in length, and that the ruin of a noble family was the result. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• You will ruin no more lives as you have ruined mine. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The house had stood on a tottering base for a dozen years; and at last, in the shock of the French Revolution, it had rushed down a total ruin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As a selfish man will impoverish his family and often bring them to ruin, so a selfish king brings ruin on his people and often plunges them into war. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Then he was ashamed and was quiet and I went to sleep but, man, he's a ruin. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The pilgrims took what was left of the hallowed ruin, and we pressed on toward the goal of our crusade, renowned Jerusalem. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I can not conceive of such a thing as Genoa in ruins. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The village of Nunnely has been alluded to--its old church, its forest, its monastic ruins. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Most of the sands which we find on the beaches and in other places are the ruins of rocks which have come apart, usually as the result of the action of water. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The ruins of Caesar's Palace, Pompey's Pillar, Cleopatra's Needle, the Catacombs, and ruins of ancient Alexandria will be found worth the visit. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It ruins the stomach and makes the hand shake. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• This life is ruining him. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• In short, I began the process of ruining myself in the received style, like any other spoony. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I will lie here, and cling here, till rain, and hail, and lightning and storm, ruining on me, make me one in substance with them below. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• This performance must have delighted him to the very bottom of his soul, for he has boasted that his task in life is to aid in ruining le prestige de la culture bourgeoise. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I shall be ruined, Wegg! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• You will ruin no more lives as you have ruined mine. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The times are as tight as can be; everybody is being ruined; and I don't believe Lydgate has got a farthing. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Ruined by a fatal inheritance, and restored through me! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The gloomiest problem of this mysterious life was constantly before his eyes,--souls crushed and ruined, evil triumphant, and God silent. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The man who had discovered that it could be tilled died of the labour; the man who succeeded him in possession ruined himself in fertilizing it. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Go--leave me to my misery, boys, I am a ruined community. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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