in ruins

常見例句

雙語例句

• The town lay in ruins after a heavy bombardment.
  在猛烈轟炸以后城鎮(zhèn)成了一片廢墟。
• But it is a very different world from the one left in ruins in 1945.
  不過，比起那在1945年剩下的廢墟，當(dāng)今的世界已經(jīng)大有不同。
• The presidency should be the last thing on the minds [of the main politicians], because one can become president, but receive a country in ruins.
  總統(tǒng)職位應(yīng)是這些主要政客們最后考慮的問題。 因?yàn)橐粋€(gè)人可以成為總統(tǒng)，卻要管理一個(gè)廢墟中的國家。

原聲例句

• But the economy was in ruins, falling faster with each passing day of the crisis that grew into the Great Depression.
• Archaeologists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were stunned to find the ruins and the records of remarkable peoples and cultures--massive, complex empires in some cases, but some of which had completely disappeared from human memory.
  十九和二十世紀(jì)的考古學(xué)家們,震驚地發(fā)現(xiàn)了,古代偉大名族和文化的遺跡，有些還是大規(guī)模，復(fù)雜的帝國遺跡,但也有一些就完全從人類記憶中消失了。
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• It was not surprising that the North showed little sympathy when the fighting stopped and the South lay in ruins.

權(quán)威例句

• Because it was only two miles wide, by war's end it was largely in ruins.
  ECONOMIST: Brcko
• Insull, indicted for mail fraud, won acquittal but died with his reputation in ruins.
  FORBES: American Pyramids
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