英语释义

• making light of;

  "afire with annihilating invective"

  "a devastating portrait of human folly"

  "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert

• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination;

  "a crushing blow"

  "a crushing rejection"

  "bone-crushing"

• wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction;

  "possessing annihilative power"

  "a devastating hurricane"

  "the guns opened a withering fire"

片语

annihilating消灭；废止；摧毁（annihilate的ing形式）

devastating throw暮日投

fell掉下，跌落（fall 的过去式）；砍伐；击倒，打倒；把（接缝的边）缝平

Devastating Blow毁灭打击

rubbling起泡（服装用语）；使成为瓦砾；毁坏（rubble 的现在分词）

Devastating Style昕以毁灭性的方式

Devastating Hammer破坏之锤

destructive破坏的；毁灭性的；有害的，消极的

devastating disease毁灭性的病害

devastating characteristics地震破坏特征

fatal(Fatal)人名；(葡、芬)法塔尔

Devastating Summons毁灭性召唤

devastating typhoon破坏性极大的台风

英汉例句

• they suggest that the macroeconomic effects of the tsunami, though hardly negligible, will not be devastating and will not last very long.

  它们都显示，海啸对宏观经济的影响，尽管是不能忽略的，但不会是毁灭性的，也不会持续很久。

• 「africa is one part of the world where a biological attack with smallpox is likely to have a more devastating effect, 」 he said.

  他说：「如果遭遇天花这种生物袭击，非洲可能是世界上受到其破坏性影响最大的地方」。

• my message to countries which have not yet been touched by this devastating virus is: think hard.

  我对尚未被这种毁灭性的病毒触及的国家要说的是：认真思考这一问题。

• if clones are distributed to various nodes in the system, even the failure of an entire machine does not produce devastating consequences.

  如果克隆分布于系统内的各个节点，即便是整个机器的故障也不会产生灾难性的后果。

• 「it has consequences for us but it would be devastating for iran, 」 he said.

  「这对我们会有影响，但对伊朗的打击将是毁灭性的，」他说。

• if some other party discovered the secret, though, the message exchange would be compromised, with potentially devastating results for the parties to the exchange.

  但是，如果其他方发现了这个秘密，那么消息交换就会泄漏，并会为消息交换方带来潜在的破坏性结果。

• instead of announcing your tragic affairs to everyone, save the news for your lunch break where you can fill your friends in on all the devastating details.

  保留你的新闻而不是向每个人宣布拟的悲剧吧，将它们留到午饭后休息时和你的朋友一滴不漏的分享你那毁灭性的细节。

• the effort to rebuild haiti after its devastating earthquake on january 12th will run into countless pitfalls, but it seems that a lack of financing will not be among them.

  1月12号发生在海地的毁灭性的地震，给海地的重建造成了巨大的资金缺陷，但看起来缺少资金的并不在他们中。

• he argues that such rivalry could lead to a pre–world war i situation with potentially devastating consequences for both nations and for the rest of the world.

  他论述说，这样的对抗将导致第一次世界大战前的情况，对两个国家和世界其他国家带来潜在的破坏性的后果。

• this fact file describes some of the devastating effects of injuries and violence around the world and prevention methods that can lessen suffering and save lives.

  这份事实档案描述了在全世界范围内伤害和暴力所造成的一些灾难性后果，以及减少痛苦，拯救生命的预防方法。

• this week at balmoral, we have all been trying to help william and harry come to terms with the devastating loss that they and the rest of us have suffered.

  这个星期在巴尔莫勒尔堡，我们所有人都会尝试着帮助威廉王子和哈里王子接受他们和我们遭受的毁灭性的损失。

• haiti and pakistan have still not recovered from last year’s devastating earthquake and floods.

  海地和巴基斯坦亦仍未从去年毁灭性的地震和洪灾中恢复。

• technically, that strong shaking was an aftershock of the devastating 9.0 temblor that hit the nation nearly a month ago.

  严格的说,那次强震属于差不多一个月前袭击这个国家的灾难性9.0级地震的余震.

• that’s not devastating to the carriers because revenue from data is growing fast.

  这对运营商来说不是破坏性的，因为数据业务的收入增长很快。

• if your brain rages beyond that, you can diffuse it by acknowledging its request and explaining in detail why it could be devastating were you to honor it.

  如果你大脑发神经的疯狂程度远超过说话，你也可以先承认它的这些需求，然后详细解释给它听为什么它的需求对你来说是毁灭性的。

• how could one formula pack such a devastating punch?

  一个公式怎么能产生这种破坏性沖击？

• we can only reduce the devastating human and economic impact of a pandemic if we all take the threat seriously now and prepare thoroughly.

  只有当我们所有人严肃对待这一威胁并彻底做好準备，我们才能减轻大流行对人类和经济的灾难性影响。

• residents along the riverside, for instance, have blamed the dam for devastating landslides that have swept away homes and farmland.

  以水库沿岸的居民为例，他们认为大坝造成了毁灭性的滑坡，沖走了房屋和农田。

• u.s. president barack obama says the situation in haiti remains dire, with people in desperate need of shelter, food and medicine after the devastating january 12 earthquake.

  美国总统奥巴马说，海地的形势依然严峻，在1月12日的灾难性地震之后，人们迫切需要避难场所、食品和医疗服务。

• this highly reductionist view of history has been enormously influential, but in her classic the god of the machine, isabel paterson asks a devastating question: what gives you the steam-mill?

  这种高度简化的历史观点有着巨大的影响力，但是在作品《机器之神》里，伊莎贝尔·帕特森问了一个灾难性的问题：谁给了你蒸汽磨？

相似词

disastrous灾难性的；损失惨重的；悲伤的

destructive破坏的；毁灭性的；有害的，消极的

violent暴力的；猛烈的