devastate
devastate 英 [ˈdevəsteɪt] 美 [ˈdɛvəˌstet]
vt. 毁灭；毁坏
进行时:devastating 过去式:devastated 过去分词:devastated 第三人称单数:devastates 名词复数:devastates
- If a storm devastates your town, it comes pretty close to destroying it. To devastate is to cause destruction to or overwhelm.
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- vt. 毁灭；毁坏
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1. The upshot is that we’re horrifyingly nonchalant at the prospect that rising carbon emissions may devastate our favorite planet.
关键是，我们对于不断增加的碳排放可能毁坏我们地球家园的前景采取了可怕的漠视态度。
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2. Monsoons, droughts, depleted groundwater resources, and typhoons devastate poor countries because they’re in too deep a hole economically to reduce their risk, he says.
他说，季风、干旱、枯竭的地下水资源和台风给贫困国家带来了毁灭性的灾难，因为它们深陷经济泥潭而无力减轻风险。
- devastate (v.) 1630s, perhaps a back-formation from devastation. Apparently not common until 19c.; earlier verb form devast is attested from 1530s, from Middle French devaster. Related: devastated; devastating.
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