英语词汇“ruin”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

ruin

释义

physical, moral, economic, or social collapse

a ruined person or structure

destruction

The repeated air of sad Electra's poet had the power to save the Athenian walls from ruin bare — Milton

a person's downfall, or the cause of it

Whisky was his ruin

(usu in pl)

the state of being wrecked or decayed

in ruins

the remains of something destroyed

[Middle English ruine via French from Latin ruina from ruere to fall]

to damage (something) completely and irreparably

to reduce (somebody) to financial ruin

archaic to ravish or deflower (a virgin)

For many innocent girls … are, as it may emphatically be termed, ruined before they know the difference between virtue and vice — Mary Wollstonecraft

to make thoroughly unpleasant or unenjoyable; to spoil

to reduce (a building, etc) to ruins

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