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词汇 wreckage
释义 wreckage
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈrek.ɪdʒ/ us /ˈrek.ɪdʒ/
C2
a badly damaged object or the separated parts of a badly damaged object: 严重受损的东西;残骸
Two children were trapped in the wreckage.两名儿童被困在残骸里。
The wreckage of the car was scattered over the roadside.那辆汽车的残骸散落在路旁。
what is left of something that has been spoiled or that has failed: 剩余物;残存物
Kate was still clinging to the wreckage of her failed marriage.凯特仍然执着于她那破碎的婚姻,不想放手。
Investigators combed through the wreckage.调查人员在残骸中认真搜寻。
Forensic scientists are examining the wreckage for clues about the cause of the explosion.法医科学家正在对残骸进行检查,希望能发现与爆炸原因有关的线索。
Rescue teams searched among the wreckage for survivors.救援队在残骸中搜寻幸存者。
They had to amputate his foot to free him from the wreckage.为了把他从残骸中解救出来,他们只好截断他的一只脚。
Rescuers took several hours to cut the survivors free from the wreckage.救援人员花了好几个小时才将残骸切割开,把幸存者解救出来。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Things remaining
(and) all the restidiom
balance
bastion
be leftphrase
cremains
cutpiece
deposit
ground
redoubt
relic
remainder
remains
remnant
residual
rest
throwback
time capsule
to the dregs
unallocated
unconsumed

wreckage | American Dictionary


wreckage
noun[ U ]
us/ˈrek·ɪdʒ/
what is left of something badly damaged:
Safety experts were studying the wreckage to find out what caused the crash.

wreckage | Business English


wreckage
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈrekɪdʒ/us
a situation in which something has been badly damaged or destroyed:
The bank's directors should not be allowed to walk away from the financial wreckage they created.
the parts of a vehicle, building, etc. that remain after it has been badly damaged:
Experts were sent to inspect the plane's wreckage.

Examples of wreckage


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They refused to do so, although a boat was available and, in addition, there was a quantity of floating wreckage nearby.
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I think that the difficulty in this case was that the wreckage was spread over an enormous area.
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If we are to clear up the wreckage of the past 20 years, it will be essential to introduce compulsion into pensions.
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We even found that it declined to give assistance in the removal of wreckage.
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The majority of this effort was directed towards the search for bodies and wreckage.
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The sight of the wreckage and the damage done was horrific.
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You can see the wreckage that it has caused all over the world to-day.
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Attempts to recover the main wreckage were not successful.
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They did see wreckage and a number of empty lifeboats.
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The flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder were recovered from the wreckage and good quality read-outs from both have been obtained.
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Salvage operations are still going on and the examination of the wreckage and the collection and sifting of evidence will necessarily take some considerable time.
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The assessors based their survey on photographs of the wreckage.
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Widespread wreckage of towns and villages will have to be made good.
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We have allotted it to save from the wreckage the club premises and the leaders which were pretty well gone.
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The roads concerned were closed for about four hours while the wreckage was cleared and tests were conducted for the prospect of any leakage.
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