devastation

美音：[ˌdevəˈsteɪʃ(ə)n] 英音：[.devə'steɪʃ(ə)n]

简单释义：

n.灾难；巨大的破坏；损坏；蹂躏

网络毁坏；毁灭；荒废

完整释义：

1.灾难;巨大的破坏;损坏;蹂躏

例句：

The gulf oil spill put New Orleans through devastation it had not seen since the hurricane.
墨西哥湾原油泄漏事件使新奥尔良面临着那场毁灭性的飓风之后从未经受过的最恐怖的灾难。
After the verdicts, Susan Lewis, 46, of Great Yarmouth, told of her devastation at having to turn in her own son to the police.
在陪审团的裁决做出以后，来自于GreatYarmouth学院46岁的苏珊·刘易斯讲述了她不得不将儿子向警察局告发所受的毁灭性打击。
Though Friday's tsunami caused tremendous devastation in northern Japan, its impact elsewhere appears to have been modest.
虽然周五的海啸使日本北部遭受巨大破坏，但在其他地方的影响似乎不大。
And then fade up: the player recovers control of their avatar, and can crawl out of the debris, only to see devastation, and die.
一片黑暗，接着音乐渐渐加强：玩家恢复控制他们的化身，并能爬出来的碎片，只看到灾难，死亡。
It caused devastation by burrowing and by devouring the herbage which might have maintained millions of sheep and cattle.
它们在地下打洞，吞食掉本来可以牧放数百万只羊和牲口的牧草，造成了破坏。
THE devastation wrought by the great recession is still all too real for millions of Americans who lost their jobs, businesses and homes.
对于那些失去工作、企业和住房的数百万美国人来说，这次大衰退造成的破坏再真实不过了。
And we had a chance to tour some of the devastation that has been taking place in some of the subdivisions here.
而我们有机会视察在这里的一些地方发生过的大灾难。
After the devastation of Europe, the only suitable place in 1945 appeared to be the United States.
战后的欧洲毁坏严重，1945年惟一适合的地方似乎就是美国了。

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