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 今天我们要学的词是 ravage¹.

 

ravage 的意思是破坏，摧残。 Australia's bushfires have ravaged² more than 63-thousand square kilometers of land there, and current estimates put the animal death toll³ at an astounding⁴ 1.25 billion and climbing. 澳大利亚的丛林大火已经烧毁了63000多平方公里的土地，目前估计导致动物死亡数量达到惊人的12.5亿，这个数字还在上升。

 

Deadly storms and rare January tornadoes⁵ have ravaged areas in the southern U.S., leaving at least 11 people dead and tens of thousands without power. 致命的风暴和一月份罕见的龙卷风席卷了美国南部地区，造成至少11人死亡，成千上万的用户断电。

1 ravage   

vt.使...荒废，破坏...；n.破坏，掠夺，荒废

参考例句：

• Just in time to watch a plague ravage his village.恰好目睹了瘟疫毁灭了他的村庄。
• For two decades the country has been ravaged by civil war and foreign intervention.20年来，这个国家一直被内战外侵所蹂躏。

2 ravaged   

毁坏( ravage的过去式和过去分词 )； 蹂躏； 劫掠； 抢劫

参考例句：

• a country ravaged by civil war 遭受内战重创的国家
• The whole area was ravaged by forest fires. 森林火灾使整个地区荒废了。

3 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

4 astounding   

adj.使人震惊的vt.使震惊，使大吃一惊astound的现在分词)

参考例句：

• There was an astounding 20% increase in sales. 销售量惊人地增加了20%。
• The Chairman's remarks were so astounding that the audience listened to him with bated breath. 主席说的话令人吃惊，所以听众都屏息听他说。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 tornadoes   

n.龙卷风，旋风( tornado的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Tornadoes, severe earthquakes, and plagues create wide spread havoc. 龙卷风、大地震和瘟疫成普遍的毁坏。 来自互联网
• Meteorologists are at odds over the working of tornadoes. 气象学者对龙卷风的运动方式看法不一。 来自互联网