ruin/ravage/spoil.导航词义：破坏

1. ruin:v. 毁坏，毁掉.强调程度，指完全毁掉，用于具体的事物时，指该事物虽然被毁坏，但依然存在。

The illness has ruined his career.

这个病毁掉了他的事业。

The bad weather ruined their picnic.

恶劣的天气毁掉了他们的野餐。

The rain ruined her newly cut hair.

这场雨毁了她新剪的头发。

2. ravage:v. 摧毁，严重破坏.强调程度严重，通常用被动语态。

People lived a hard life as the country had been ravaged by civil war.

该国由于内战满目疮痍，人们生活非常艰难。

His health was gradually ravaged by excessive drinking.

由于酗酒，他的身体渐渐垮了。

3. spoil:v. 毁掉，破坏.指使某物的优良特性或特征不复存在，但此物依然存在，语气没有ruin 强。

The whole scenic spot is spoiled by litter.

整个景区环境都被垃圾破坏了。

Don't let the incident spoil our party.

别让这件事毁了我们的聚会。

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1·Gambling was his ruin.

赌博毁了他。《牛津词典》

2·His enemies are determined to ruin him.

他的敌人决意要毁了他。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·The bank stepped in to save the company from financial ruin.

银行的介入使这家公司免于经济崩溃。《牛津词典》

4·A large number of churches fell into ruin after the revolution.

革命过后，许多教堂都毁了。《牛津词典》

5·The farmers say recent inflation has driven them to the brink of ruin.

那些农民们说最近的通货膨胀已经把他们逼到了破产的边缘。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

6·It is no use trying to plan an 18-hole golf course on a 120-acre site if you have to ruin the environment to do it.

要规划一个占地120公顷、拥有18洞的高尔夫球场如果必须破坏环境才能做到，那就毫无益处了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

7·To ruin the vendor's reputation.

要毁掉小贩的名声。

8·Ruin now stares in the face.

正面临着毁灭的威胁。

9·The tower collapsed in a heap of ruin.

这座塔倒塌了， 成为一堆废墟。《新英汉大辞典》

10·I refused to let cancer ruin my party.

我不想让癌症毁了我的派对。

破坏

1·It is no use trying to plan an 18-hole golf course on a 120-acre site if you have to ruin the environment to do it.

要规划一个占地120公顷、拥有18洞的高尔夫球场如果必须破坏环境才能做到，那就毫无益处了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·We do not ruin urban conservation areas.

我们不会破坏城市保护区。

3·Why ruin rural ones?

为什么要破坏乡村呢？

4·Don't let negativity ruin your motivation.

不要让消极情绪破坏你的动力。

5·Too much vinegar or garlic can ruin the Gazpacho.

放太多的醋或大蒜会破坏西班牙凉菜汤的味道。

毁灭

1·It would only serve to precipitate his ruin.

它只会加速他的毁灭。《新英汉大辞典》

2·Only a people determined to ruin the next generation will refuse such Federal funds as public education may require.

只有一个决心要毁灭下一代的民族才会拒绝公共教育可能需要的联邦基金。

3·Though self-handicapping can be an effective way of coping with performance anxiety now and then, in the end, researchers say, it will lead to ruin.

研究人员说，虽然自我设限有时是应对表现焦虑的一种有效方式，但这最终会导致毁灭。

4·Ruin now stares in the face.

正面临着毁灭的威胁。

5·A century and a half later we find ourselves in the world he anticipated, where everyone's life is experimental and provisional, and sudden ruin can happen at any time.

一个半世纪后，我们发现自己处以他预见的那个世界里，那里每个人的生活都是实验性的、临时性的，任何时候都能发生突然的毁灭。

破产

1·The farmers say recent inflation has driven them to the brink of ruin.

那些农民们说最近的通货膨胀已经把他们逼到了破产的边缘。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·While the passengers were having free refreshments, the staff showed no signs of being starved either, but nevertheless the greatest gain remained with my brother in the ruin he so valiantly faced.

当乘客都有免费的茶点，工作人员也没有挨饿的迹象时，哥哥的最大收获仍然是破产，然而，他却十分勇敢地面对。

3·In this paper, we propose a two-dimensional risk model with thinning dependent structure and three different types of ruin probabilities are defined.

本文引入了一个含稀疏相关结构的二维风险模型，并基于此模型定义了三类不同的破产概率。

4·The company was heading for ruin.

那家公司即将破产。

5·The bill would ruin most Indians.

但是，这里的消费会让大多数印度人破产。

废墟

1·The tower collapsed in a heap of ruin.

这座塔倒塌了， 成为一堆废墟。《新英汉大辞典》

2·I concluded that no one ruin is like another.

我的结论是，没有一个废墟是相似的。

3·Near the church and the parish house, lay an old ruin that once had been a spacious building.

在教堂和教区的房子附近，有一片残旧的废墟，它曾经是一座宽大的建筑。

4·But I concluded that no one ruin is like another.

但我断定没有一个废墟与另外的是相像的。

5·Significant sections of the city were abandoned after the conflict came to an end in 1993, and since then have crumbled into an eerie ruin.

1993年年底冲突结束之时，该市的重要路段已经废弃，从那时起这里就只留下一堆令人毛骨悚然的废墟。

毁

1·But we might ruin the stove.—Who cares?

“我们可能会毁了炉子。” —“管它呢！”《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Too perfect. A few years of slavish worship would be enough to ruin any of us.

正是因为他过于完美，几年的奴性崇拜就足以把我们都毁了。

3·Revealing to your new date your inner most secrets on date number two will quickly ruin everything.

把你的最隐私的秘密在一开始就告诉对方肯定会把约会给毁了。

4·AMY: you'd better not ask too many questions, or you'll ruin my surprise.

艾米：你最好别问太多问题，否则你会把我准备的惊喜毁了的。

5·Children don't ruin everything, Stanley points out.

斯坦利也指出，孩子并不会毁了所有美好。

毁坏

1·Somewhere, in a state far across that country is a pastel-coloured suburb that has a collapsing Gothic ruin towering over it.

在该国遥远的一个州的某处，是一个暗淡的郊区，那里高耸着一座被毁坏的废旧城堡。

2·Higher seas would literally cover some small island nations, ruin vast expanses of land used to grow food, and boost the intensity of deadly hurricanes and other extreme weather events.

高水位的海水会逐个的淹没一些小岛屿国，毁坏大量用于种植作物的广阔土地，并且引发致命的高强度飓风和其它极端恶劣的气候事件。

3·And soaring property prices-inevitable after the ruin of so much of the country's housing-have put rents beyond the reach of most of the displaced.

地震造成房屋大范围毁坏，导致房价上涨，而租金是大多数无家可归的灾民所无力担负的。

4·If we ruin it, we sin against God and against man.

若我们毁坏，我们便犯罪得罪了人和得罪了神。

5·If you enjoy a drink after work, try to save it for the weekend; alcohol is filled with calories and can really ruin a healthy diet.

如果你喜欢工作以后喝点小酒，试着将其存到周末的时候，酒精里面含有大量热量，真的能毁坏健康饮食。

崩溃

1·The bank stepped in to save the company from financial ruin.

银行的介入使这家公司免于经济崩溃。《牛津词典》

2·True, America depends more than Japan on foreign lenders. But it is not, as some claim, a few steps behind Greece on the road to fiscal ruin.

确实，美国比日本更依赖从国外借贷，但它并不像有些人说的那样：在财政崩溃之路上距希腊只有几步之遥。

3·The current cycle will lead the unwary to ruin, he says, “We are in a long-term bear market that started in 2000.

目前的这个周期将导致不警觉之中的崩溃，他说：“我们是在2000年开始的长期熊市中。”

4·The current cycle will lead the unwary to ruin, he says, We are in a long-term bear market that started in 2000.

目前的这个周期将导致不警觉之中的崩溃，他说：“我们是在2000年开始的长期熊市中。”

5·He's actually claiming that this poem had been prophetic, that Lycidas foretold the ruin of the clergy.

他实际上是在声称这首诗是先知的，它已然预示了教会崩溃的必然。

灭亡

1·California thus seems to be doing its level best to come to ruin and, as the nation's largest economy, to drag the country's hopes for a recovery down with it.

看来作为美国最大的经济体的加州正在尽最大努力自取灭亡，而这也打碎了美国对经济复苏给予的希望。

2·In August he was in Smolensk and thinking of nothing but advancing further, though, as we see now, that advance meant inevitable ruin.

八月他在斯摩棱斯克一心只想如何推进，可是我们现在却看出，这种继续推进对他来说显然是自取灭亡的。

葬送

1·These will eventually ruin the environment.

这些将会最终葬送了环境。

2·But seems to say, as long as not to ruin a life, is no then unable to get up after a fall of failures and setbacks.

但似乎可以说，只要不致葬送生命，就决无从此一蹶不振的失败和挫折。

3·The erosion of coral from the tempestuous waves, it is undoubtedly their beautiful ruin.

让珊瑚远离惊涛骇浪的侵蚀，那无疑是将它们的美丽葬送。

4·We've been working together with Charlie for a long time. He's been our supplier for ages, so I hate to ruin a lasting relationship just because I can get a little lower price somewhere else.

我们已经和查理共事很久了，在很长的一个时间段里他都是供货商，我不会为了别的地方价格上的略微优势就匆匆葬送这个长久以来的关系。

(1)in ruins成为废墟

(1)financial ruin经济损失