ruinous

adj. 破坏性的，毁灭性的；零落的

adj.

耗资巨大的；无法承担的；破坏性的；导致严重问题的

英英释义

ruinous[ 'ruinəs, 'ru:- ]

adj.

extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin

"a ruinous course of action"

同义词：catastrophic

causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin

"a ruinous war"

同义词：blasting

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

The snow is ruinous to the trees.
雪对这些树危害极大。

The decision was to prove ruinous.
后来证明这个决定造成了极大的危害。

There was no use selling at ruinous figures.
以亏本太大的价格出卖是无济于事的。

The prices in that restaurant are absolutely ruinous.
那家餐馆的价格贵得能把人坑死。

They took a ruinous expenditure on the house.
他们为了那所房子倾家荡产。

权威例句

ruinous (adj.)

late 14c., "going to ruin," from Old French ruinos (Modern French ruineux) or directly from Latin ruinosus "tumbling down, going to ruin," from ruina (see ruin (n.)). Meaning "causing ruin" is from mid-15c. Related: Ruinously.

1. Water shortages, concludes the Blue Peace report, are now so alarming that in a few years opposing camps will have little choice but to co-operate and share resources, or face ruinous conflict.

蓝色和平组织总结到：水资源短缺已经拉响了警报。在未来几年内，目前对立的阵营必须别无选择的携手合作，资源共享，否则将面临毁灭性的冲突。

2. The real effects, the foundation said, would be ruinous for families and job creation.

该基金会指出，真正的影响对家庭和就业来说将是破坏性的。

3. But Congress could, and should, have stopped this potentially ruinous trajectory.

但是国会可以也应该阻止这种可能具有破坏性的趋势。

4. Instead, the government could pursue policies designed to drive wages higher for middle- and lower-class Americans, he said, allowing them to buy homes and cars without taking on ruinous debt.

相反，政府也许会实施旨在驱动中低收入美国人薪资增长的经济政策，使他们有能力购买房屋和轿车，而无需承担毁灭性债务。

5. The only way this ruinous cycle can be erased is for Congress to stop the “bs” and cut as much spending as possible.

惟一能够阻止这一毁灭性的循环持续下去的办法是国会方面停止无谓的争执，然后尽量减少财政支出。

6. Our economies are hugely interdependent and a conflict would be financially ruinous for both of us.

我们的经济相互依存度高，而一场冲突从财务上来讲对我们双方是毁灭性的。

7. Compromises are ruinous if they would work against our aims in the long term.

我们认为，那些从长远来看会给我们的前进形成阻碍的妥协是毁灭性的。

8. Yet having built his power on fear, he was loth to admit that he had been de-clawed, and so allowed the interminable and ruinous saga of sanctions to continue.

然而，依靠恐吓手段巩固政权的他并不愿承认自己已经雄风不再，所以也就任由毁灭性的制裁无休无止地进行下去。

9. The gold standard — which John Maynard Keynes termed a “barbarous relic” — led to ruinous deflations.

约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯称为“野蛮的遗迹”的金本位制导致了极大的破坏性。

10. It can be reversed. Ruinous tariffs are easy to impose, as was discovered during the Depression.

政府可能轻易征收会造成破坏性结果的关税，这种情况在经济大萧条期间就曾发生。

11. It can be reversed. Ruinous tariffs are easy to impose, as was discovered during the Depression.

政府可能轻易征收会造成破坏性结果的关税，这种情况在经济大萧条期间就曾发生。

12. The mill yawned all ruinous with unglazed frames; the yard was thickly bestrewn with stones and brickbats.

由于玻璃都打烂了，工厂象张开大口似地露出一片劫后惨案，院子到处撒满了石块、碎砖。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

13. It was their infatuated perseverance in an unjustifiable, a hopeless, a ruinous in war which had brought the nation to its present pass.

正是他们昏头昏脑地坚持进行一个不合理的、无希望的、毁灭性的战争，才把国家弄成现在这般田地。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

14. The cost will be ruinous.

花费之多将是灾难性的。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

15. There was no use selling at ruinous figures.

以亏本太大的价格出卖是无济于事的。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

16. Excessive( extravagant, exorbitant, unreasonable, famine, ruinous) price

离行情价格，乱开价，不合理的价格

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

17. He went to the money lenders and borrowed on ruinous terms.

他去跟放高利贷的人借钱，订了使他破产的契约。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

18. Few of the men she saw seemed worth a ruinous expenditure.

她觉得，她认识的男子中，很少有值得她倾心相爱的。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

19. Part of the ruinous expense comes from the poten-tial for lawsuits.

导致破产的部分费用来自可能发生的法律诉讼。

-- 来源 -- life - 汉英

20. The rector was obliged to take up the money at a ruinous interest, and had been struggling ever since.

牧师没法，只能出了重利钱借债填补亏空，从此便拮据不堪。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

21. ruinous heap

废墟

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考