音标:[ˈdevəsteɪtɪd] ; 柯林斯词典等级:1 级;
v. 彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词); 摧毁; 毁灭; 在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮
a. 毁坏的; 极为震惊的
v cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
v overwhelm or overpower

词性分布:
形容词100%

devastate的用法和样例:

例句

用作及物动词(vt.)
  1. They intended to devastate the town at one stroke.他们企图一举摧毁全城。
  2. Our Embassy was devastated by three bombs of NATO.我们的使馆被北约的三枚炸弹炸毁了。
  3. The country was devastated by a long war.该国因遭到长期战争的破坏而荒废。
  4. I was devastated by the news of the wreck.我获悉失事的消息感到十分震惊。

经典引文

  • France would have to rebuild all the areas devastated by war.

    出自:P. H. Gibbs
  • She probably died of heart disease. Dickens was devastated.

    出自:P. Rose
【近义词】

The administrator of the 20-billion-dollar escrow fund being established to help victims of the BP oil spill in the Gulf says he plans to pay legitimate claims quickly. In an interview of NPR's All Things Considered, Ken Feinberg says he hopes to pay

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(267) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

11Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute. 2Gilead's wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. You are not going to get any inheritance in our family, they

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(242) / 评论(0) 分类 士师记

生活大爆炸第四季第三集_1 剧情简介: The Big Bang Theory是一部以科学天才为背景的情景喜剧.四位科学天才分别是:可爱善解人意的Leonard,高智商零情商的Sheldon,会六国语言的 Howard Wolowitz,以及患有

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(218) / 评论(0) 分类 生活大爆炸第四季

[00:20.96]Roger Federer 罗杰费德勒 [00:43.83]词汇扫描 [00:48.26]foundation 基金 [00:53.17]disadvantaged 贫困的 [00:58.73]primarily 主要 [01:03.21]charity 慈善 [01:07.48]tsunami 海啸 [01:11.81]victim 受害者 [01:15.55]auction 拍卖 [01:19.31]autograph

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(181) / 评论(0) 分类 各色各样的人

[00:00.00]putting out many of the fires [00:01.91]which have devastated 740,000 acres of bushland [00:05.43]in the Blue Mountain area, [00:06.84]and have threatened the suburbs of Sydney, [00:08.77]causing the evacuation of over 5,000 people. [00:11.

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(359) / 评论(0) 分类 北师大版高中英语模块9(选修)

1. The BP executive who angered Gulf residents by saying he wanted his life back is spending the day at a yacht race in England. A BP spokesperson calls it a rare moment of private time for CEO Tony Hayward. 2. A top US envoy is calling for an indepe

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(253) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2010(六月)

Residents of Devastated Texas Town Work to Restore Lives The funeral procession was made up mostly of fire trucks and passed under a giant American flag. It's the first funeral of many to come in this Texas town and is for volunteer fireman Kenneth H

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(213) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(四月)

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico almost three weeks ago, it caused much destruction across the island, including the small agricultural sector. By some estimates, 80 percent of crops were destroyed. NPR's Merrit Kennedy repor

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(174) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump is expected to visit the areas of Florida hit by Hurricane Michael. The utility Gulf Power says it's working to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of residents who are still in the dark two weeks after t

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(174) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

16Then Job replied: 2I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all! 3Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing? 4I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine sp

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(276) / 评论(0) 分类 约伯记

朋友有毒,用白话说就是狐朋狗友,如果你总和这些朋友厮混在一起,你的生活永远是一团糟。 Toxic friends complicate your life. These people are more than a nuisance, theyre parasitic. Precious time slips away as yo

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(262) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

By Paula Wolfson White House 09 May 2007 President Bush offered comfort Wednesday to the victims of one of the worst tornados to hit the United States in years. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from the White House, Mr. Bush spent the day touring the smal

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(212) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(五月)

The world is filled with smart, talented, educated and gifted people. We meet them every day. A few days ago, my car was not running well. I pulled it into a garage, and the young mechanic had it fixed in just a few minutes. He knew what was wrong by

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(177) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

有才华的穷人(上)

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(196) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

BBC News Floodwaters in Paris are set to peak shortly with the River Seine due to go 6m (19ft) above its normal level. BBC新闻 巴黎很快要迎来洪峰,塞纳河水位将高过正常水平6米(19英尺)。 The world-famous Louvre and Orsay

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(225) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

By Mike O'Sullivan Leone, American Samoa 04 October 2009 At least 170 people have been confirmed dead following last week's earthquake and tsunami in the Pacific Islands of Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga. Some towns escaped with minor damage, but o

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(256) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十月)

A short while ago when life was simple and all that mattered was friends and having fun. There were two sisters that lived life just as gracefully as possible. There names were Carlie and Mary Jane they were liked by everyone but something just wasn'

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(233) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Where's My Booger? 我的鼻屎干哪儿去了? As I was trying to pack for vacation, my 3-year-old daughter was having a wonderful time playing on the bed. 在我忙着为出去度假收拾行李的时候,我3岁的女儿在麻上玩儿得很开心

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(296) / 评论(0) 分类 英语小达人

Beginners. This year I have some free time. My youngest child goes to preschool four mornings a week, so during that time, I can do many things. I decided recently to put my application in for being a substitute teacher. That is a teacher who takes t

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(201) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English

I recently lost my best friend Arnold in an automobile accident while moving my family to our new home in Arizona. Arnold was an 8-month-old pot belly who taught me so much about love, devotion and companionship. I am devastated by his loss, but than

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(246) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文
学英语单词
agrotechnique
aorta arch of
assessed profit
automatogen
automotive effect
blood desertion
bluetooth
British European Airways
cab signaling equipment
carboplatins
cark it
cascade mill
coach board
cobaltiferous
commercial blockade
conseuctive operation
contractual rate of freight
cork jackets
Cotswold
cunding
Desdemona
diagonal split screen
distribution of powers
district frame
dwarfed enamel
eodiagenesis
equivalent sphere diffusion model
evatt
fecal pellet
get into bed
grumphy
Hickleton
homoleptic
hook uneven
inblock cast
inyoated
ionization type smoke detector
Ipomoea orizabensis
isoxaben
kashner
katyushas
Keadue
ketodestrin
kienzle
low frequency modulation
maritime travel
mask negative
material storehouse
maxail
metavariables
moon on
myelograms
non-possessions
Nothasauria
number of units in sample
optical pickup
orbital eccentricity variation
ordered precession
overlay load
pekin crepe
phaeochromin
pitch mop
Plastunovskaya
prevaricatory
primitive procephalic appendage
procedural constitutionalism
pulsating auroral radar echoes
purviance
radial layout
rat-catchers
reactor for daylight lamp
red-ribbon
relative data set
retunable
sales and administrative expense
scram testing
selective resonance
self-excited
series magnet coil
serum casein
seya-namioka monochromator
sign form
single-phase commutator induction motor
snuggle up
soup with asparagus
spongophare
steel pipe-encased concrete bridge
stream oriented file
swirl-chamber diesel engine
symmetrical scalar product
T-socket
take up reel table
thermit iron
transfer protocol
tunicamycin
underground shovel
unload
Uraniidae
Walsh transform
went round and round
yolk epithelium