英语释义

1. causing great damage or harm
a devastating flood/earthquake a devastating injury A devastating coastal tsunami could also result from a severe displacement of the San Andreas Fault.
— Gary Sandquist

2. causing extreme emotional pain
a devastating loss Even the most banal domestic melodramas, readers come to understand, are experienced as devastating tragedies by children living them for the first time.
— Entertainment Weekly

3. extremely effective or powerful
a devastating satire He had a devastating wit and an utter contempt for shoddy work in physics.
— Jeremy Bernstein

4. causing great damage or harm

5. causing extreme emotional pain

6. extremely effective or powerful

片语

subversivelyad 颠覆性地；破坏性地

causticallyad 挖苦地；腐蚀地；讥讽地

英汉例句

• Spells are hurled back and forth until Harry delivers a crushing blow with a devastatingly powerful and potentially lethal spell... a spell he learned from the Half-Blood Prince.

  法术是投掷来回，直到哈里提供了毁灭性的打击，以毁灭性强大和可能致命的法术…拼写他从混血王子。

• The Senate Report was devastatingly critical of the CIA assessment on Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.

  参议院的报告是毁灭性的批评中情局的评估对伊拉克拥有大规模杀伤性武器。

• But as it is, it「s merely a devastatingly brilliant comic about a cop with an axe whose name I forget.

  不过以目前而言，这就是一部很给力的漫画佳作而已，主角是一名随身携带斧头的警察，名字我忘了。

• The Allied forces may seem weaker at first but if placed in the proper combination they are devastatingly precise and powerful weapons.

  盟军在初期看上去很脆弱，但是如果运用得当的话，她们会变成精準而又有破坏力的武器。

• Well, first, addiction is exceedingly difficult to treat and devastatingly subject to relapse.

  首先，成瘾癥极度难以治疗，而且极度容易复发。

• Instead, they propose that someone whose brain is devastatingly and irreversibly damaged, and who has previously given his informed consent, should be able to donate vital organs while still alive.

  作为对这一规则的代替，他们建议当一个人的大脑遭受了毁灭性且不可挽回的损伤，而他之前曾经做出了捐赠的允诺，那么就应该允许在其仍然活着的时候取走有关乎生命的器官。

• Colonel Qaddafi」s troops and supporters are rapidly learning just how devastatingly effective western air power can be.

  卡扎菲上校的军队和支持者很快就了解了西方国家空军所具有的毁灭性力量。

• I wondered if you ever thought about us, the children and the wife, that we are made of flesh and blood, that we have feelings, that we could get hurt, very hurt, devastatingly hurt.

  我同样好奇是否你曾考虑过我们——孩子和妻子，作为血肉之躯、作为有情有义、作为也会受伤——灾难般的伤痛的人们。

• Its advertising is devastatingly successful.

  它的广告做得极为成功。

• Meanwhile, as I「ve already pointed out, unemployment - although down from its 2009 peak - remains devastatingly high.

  与此同时，正如本人所言，失业率尽管已经从2009年的最高数值降了下来，但依然处于令人沮丧的高位。

• Sonam Kapoor: 「It」s really really devastatingly sad…its shocking and heart wrenching… please pray for the lives lost.」

  索南卡普尔：「这真的很伤心…毁灭性的令人震惊，令人心痛…请为生命祈祷损失。」

• Labour「s narrative was once devastatingly clear: the revenues from a buoyant economy should correct the historic underspend on public services.

  工党的叙述一度及其明确：蓬勃上升的经济带来的收入会填补在公共服务上的少量花费。

• Shot over 12 years, Richard Linklater」s film about growing up is a devastatingly plausible biography of a real person - and a terrifying reminder that life is short.

  历时12年的拍摄，导演理查德·林克莱特借这部电影真实地记述了一个人的成长历程，却也提醒了大家——人生苦短。

• I hope my professional career will be devastatingly successful in the coming year. I hope all you guys could support and advocate me for everlasting.

  我希望我的职业生涯在明年将会取得极大地成功，我希望大家可以永远支持我、拥护我。

• Although only a few dogs will get DCM (approximately 2 percent), the disease comes on devastatingly quickly, produces very few noticeable symptoms, and is most often fatal.

  尽管只有少数的狗患扩张型心肌病(大约2%)，但是这个病恶化很快、无明显的早期癥状、常常是致命的。

• With no government willing or able to stop them, the pirates found they could operate with impunity, refining a simple but devastatingly effective business model.

  在没有任何政府有意愿或能力阻止海盗行为的情况下，海盗可以恣意妄为，建立了一种简单易行却极度高效的商业模式。

相似词

calamitous灾难的，悲惨的；不幸的

destructive破坏的；毁灭性的；有害的，消极的

devastative破坏的

disastrous灾难性的；损失惨重的；悲伤的

ruinous破坏性的，毁灭性的；零落的

相反词

nondestructive无损的；非破坏性的