destruction
noun /dɪˈstrʌkʃn/
/dɪˈstrʌkʃn/
[uncountable]Word Family
- destroy verb
- destroyer noun
- destruction noun
- destructive adjective
- indestructible adjective
- the act of destroying something; the process of being destroyed
摧毁；毁灭；破坏 - the destruction of the rainforests
对热带雨林的破坏 - a tidal wave bringing death and destruction in its wake
带来死亡与破坏的海啸 - The central argument is that capitalism sows the seeds of its own destruction (= creates the forces that destroy it).
主要论点是资本主义播下了自我毁灭的种子。
- By doubling its prices, the industry sowed the seeds of its own destruction.
这个行业把价格抬高一倍，从而埋下了毁灭的祸根。 - Children will quickly test their toys to destruction.
孩子们很快就会把玩具弄坏。 - He gasped as he saw how much destruction she had wrought with the hammer.
看到她用锤子造成的破坏，他倒吸了一口气。 - He had miraculously survived the destruction of the spacecraft.
他奇迹般地在航天器爆炸中逃过一劫。 - He witnessed the destruction of most of his work in a studio fire.
他亲眼目睹自己的大部份作品在工作室火灾中被焚毁。 - Some shopkeepers closed early to prevent the wholesale destruction of their property by the hooligans.
有些店主为了防止那些街头恶棍大肆破坏他们的财产而早早关门。 - The earthquake caused loss of life and property destruction.
地震造成了生命和财产损失。 - The tornado left a trail of destruction behind it.
龙卷风所经之地留下了一片狼藉。 - Three of the paintings escaped destruction.
有三幅画幸好没被毁掉。 - a war of mutual destruction
一场相互毁灭的战争 - the destruction brought about by war
战争造成的破坏 - the environmental destruction caused by road building
道路建设对环境造成的破坏 - the threat of nuclear destruction which haunts the post-war world
战后世界挥之不去的核毁灭威胁 - the wanton destruction of public property
对公共财物的恣意破坏 - those who seek the destruction of our way of life
那些试图破坏我们生活方式的人
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- complete
- total
- utter
- …
- bring (about)
- cause
- lead to
- …
- leave a trail of destruction
- the seeds of destruction
- test something to destruction
- …
词源Middle English: from Latin destructio(n-), from the verb destruere, from de- (expressing reversal) + struere ‘build’. - the destruction of the rainforests