ruin
ruin 英 [ˈru:ɪn] 美 [ˈruɪn]
n. 废墟；毁坏 v. 毁灭；破产
进行时:ruining 过去式:ruined 过去分词:ruined 第三人称单数:ruins 名词复数:ruins
- To ruin means to wreck or destroy. If you're wearing a long dress, make sure your clumsy brother stays away from you. If he steps on it, it'll rip and be ruined.
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- n. 废墟；毁坏
- v. 毁灭；破产
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1. The bad weather ruined our trip.
天气恶劣，破坏了我们的旅行。
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2. My new shoes got ruined in the mud.
我的新鞋被泥浆给糟蹋了。
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3. The country was ruined by the war.
这个国家因战争而遭到严重破坏。
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4. The divorce led to his ruin.
离婚使得他一贫如洗。
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5. Gambling was his ruin.
赌博毁了他。
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6. The old mill is now little more than a ruin.
老磨坊现在只剩下一点残垣断壁了。
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7. The scandal left his reputation in ruins.
这件丑闻使他身败名裂。
- ruin (n.) late 14c., "act of giving way and falling down," from Old French ruine "a collapse" (14c.), and directly from Latin ruina "a collapse, a rushing down, a tumbling down" (source also of Spanish ruina, Italian rovina), related to ruere "to rush, fall violently, collapse," from PIE *reue- (2) "to smash, knock down, tear out, dig up" (see rough (adj.)). Meaning "complete destruction of anything" is from 1670s. Ruins "remains of a decayed building or town" is from mid-15c.; the same sense was in the Latin plural noun.
- ruin (v.) 1580s (transitive), from ruin (n.). Intransitive sense "fall into ruin" is from c. 1600. Financial sense is attested from 1660. Related: Ruined; ruining.
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