Shipwreck

(noun.) a wrecked ship (or a part of one).

(noun.) an accident that destroys a ship at sea.

(noun.) an irretrievable loss; 'that was the shipwreck of their romance'.

(verb.) destroy a ship; 'The vessel was shipwrecked'.

(verb.) cause to experience shipwreck; 'They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea'.

(verb.) suffer failure, as in some enterprise.

(verb.) ruin utterly; 'You have shipwrecked my career'.

手打:威利

• In case of shipwreck it is often employed to carry a line from the shore to a stranded vessel. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The story he told was merely one of shipwreck in which all but a few had perished, the balance, except himself, dying after they reached the island. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• You mean that they would shipwreck? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Have you any other letters to write—I mean about the shipwreck? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Well, my dear, there has been a terrible shipwreck over in those East Indian seas. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Then I stretched myself on the bed, not to be disdained by the victim of shipwreck. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The labours of these three men have illuminated the wildest waters of the sea and preserved a thousand fleets of commerce and of war from awful shipwreck. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• We must not shipwreck Ada upon it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• By my faith, I could pardon the unhappy Vortigern, had he half the cause that we now witness, for making shipwreck of his honour and his kingdom. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Prendergast threw us over a chart, told us that we were shipwrecked mariners whose ship had foundered in Lat. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• One in 1849 came to demand the liberation of eighteen shipwrecked American sailors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Then he got shipwrecked just as he was coming from Jerusalem to take a great chair at Padua. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Mr. Woodcourt shipwrecked! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The Trinity House installed a station at the East Goodwin Lighthouse, which communicated with shore and proved of the greatest value in preventing shipwrecks. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

整理:纳特