Ravage

(noun.) (usually plural) a destructive action; 'the ravages of time'; 'the depredations of age and disease'.

手打:露西娅

• In August, the plague had appeared in the country of England, and during September it made its ravages. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• What wonder then, in time of siege, want, extreme heat, and drought, that it should make unaccustomed ravages? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Attila's ravages in North Italy were checked by an outbreak of fever in 452. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We talked of the ravages made last year by pestilence in every quarter of the world; and of the dreadful consequences of a second visitation. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Hiding the ravages of care with a sickly mask of mirth, I have not informed you, this evening, that there is no hope of the remittance! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Her present visit to London tended to augment her state of inquietude, by shewing in its utmost extent the ravages occasioned by pestilence. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Much of the country was still suffering from the ravages of the Ephthalites and the consequent disorders. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Poland was ravaged, and a mixed army of Poles and Germans was annihilated at the battle of Liegnitz in Lower Silesia in 1241. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Clennam had been poring late over his books and letters; for the waiting-rooms of the Circumlocution Office ravaged his time sorely. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The frontier counties all along the continent having been frequently ravaged by the enemy, and greatly impoverished, are able to pay very little tax. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The canton of Underwald, in Switzerland, is frequently ravaged by storms and inundations, and it is thereby exposed to extraordinary expenses. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

整理:露丝