| 词汇 | ravaged |
| 释义 | ravaged past simple and past participle ofravage ravage verb[ Toften passive ] uk /ˈræv.ɪdʒ/ us /ˈræv.ɪdʒ/ to cause great damage to something: 严重破坏；损坏；毁坏 The area has been ravaged by drought/floods/war.这一地区饱受干旱／洪涝／战争的蹂躏。 Damaging and spoiling adulterant adulterate adulterated adulteration applecart butcher degrade drive a wedge between someoneidiom dry rot eat eat away at something erode foul put something out of jointidiom queer rain on someone's paradeidiom rampage ravage seismic wreck Examples of ravagedravaged In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The population was in retreat, halved from 1931, and the economy was ravaged. Sometimes a comparatively large area was entirely unvisited, while all the surrounding country was ravaged. Inmate mortality in the 1,700 or so penal institutions had increased in the last years of the war and many prisoners were ravaged by disease. The government's responses to these conflicts, and its effectiveness in addressing the ethno-political conflicts that have ravaged the country in the past three years, are addressed in the next section. I am the representative of a constituency that has been ravaged by gravel pits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These ravaged areas are deserts, so utterly dead and barren and forgotten. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is nuisance and danger; there is also enormous damage to animal and plant life, as anyone who visits areas ravaged by fires can see. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such a strategy should also provide special care for stricken regions, such hills and mountains ravaged by fire. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Then, as for hundreds of years previously, hand-digging was the norm, but industrialisation of the process has ravaged the land. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will be returning to a ravaged country, and will encounter the danger of stepping on land mines as well as massive problems of reconstruction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now it is ravaged by civil war and children are starving. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Before then the country was ravaged by a long and bitter civil war in which many thousands of people of all races lost their lives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The textile and clothing industries are extremely important to many communities that are ravaged by high unemployment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Millions of people are denied access to humanitarian or development assistance because they live in countries that are ravaged by conflict. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I represent a community that has been ravaged by racism. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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