ravaging v. 严重毁坏,摧毁(ravage 的现在分词)
- Their share will grow—at a time when older diseases are still ravaging the poor.
这一比例还将上升——当穷人仍然受着老年疾病的困扰的时候。 - The dam was originally built to contain the ravaging annual floods of the Yangtze and to provide China's growing economy with a cleaner source of electricity.
建设三峡大坝的初衷是控制每年肆虐的长江洪水,并为中国不断增长的经济提供清洁的电力来源。 - In practical terms, because its financial system is far less exposed to the debt problems now ravaging the West, China simply will suffer less real economic damage.
实际上,由于中国金融体系受目前肆虐西方的债务问题冲击小得多,中国在实体经济上遭受的损害较小。
ravaging[ noun ]- plundering with excessive damage and destruction
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[ adj ]- ruinously destructive and wasting
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a ravaging illness
Ravage \Rav"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ravaged}
(r[a^]v"[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Ravaging}
(r[a^]v"[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [F. ravager. See {Ravage}, n.]
To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit
havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
Already C[ae]sar
Has ravaged more than half the globe. --Addison.
His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away.
--Macaulay.
Syn: To despoil; pillage; plunder; sack; spoil; devastate;
desolate; destroy; waste; ruin.