Destroy

(verb.) put (an animal) to death; 'The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid'; 'the sick cat had to be put down'.

(verb.) destroy completely; damage irreparably; 'You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!'; 'The tears ruined her make-up'.

(verb.) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; 'The fire destroyed the house'.

恩里克录入

• They were scheming to outdo one another, to rob weaker contemporaries, to destroy rivals, so that they might for a brief interval swagger. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Not in your sense of the word, but in mine you are scheming to destroy me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But you cannot destroy them until they rebel? 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• But how destroy them so effectually that there should be no second risk of their falling in such hands? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• As I hoped in the end to besiege Vicksburg I must first destroy all possibility of aid. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• She does her best to destroy my fortunes and her own, and she won't reproach me! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He did this in an attempt to destroy Jewry, but indeed he made Jewry stronger by destroying its one sensitive and vulnerable point. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The singing arrows that destroyed the army of Crassus came, it would seem, originally from the Altai and the Tian Shan. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Surely, I would say, all men do not wear those shocking nightcaps; else all women's illusions had been destroyed on the first night of their marriage! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The smoke, gases, and ashes left in the path of a raging forest fire are no compensation to us for the valuable timber destroyed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Nothing in human shape could have destroyed that fair child. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• And the rigid examination system that killed all intellectual initiatives has been destroyed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• All the bridges over these had been destroyed, and the rails taken up and twisted by the enemy. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The railroads, of course, were thoroughly destroyed on the way. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He did this, destroying the canal as far as Goochland, and the railroad to a point as near Richmond as he could get. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He did this in an attempt to destroy Jewry, but indeed he made Jewry stronger by destroying its one sensitive and vulnerable point. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The fact that the oxygen of the air is diluted as it were with so large a proportion of nitrogen, prevents fires from sweeping over the world and destroying everything in their path. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Thence he marched on Charlottesville, destroying effectually the railroad and bridges as he went, which place he reached on the 3d. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Marriage is encouraged in China, not by the profitableness of children, but by the liberty of destroying them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• On the 1st of November I suggested to Sherman, and also asked his views thereon, the propriety of destroying Hood before he started on his campaign. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The blow broke the glass carboy, and the acid ran down upon the field magnets of the dynamo, destroying the windings of one of the twelve magnets. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Contaminated water is made safe by boiling for a few minutes, because the strong heat destroys the disease-producing germs. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Chloride of lime when exposed to the air and moisture slowly gives off chlorine, and can be used as a disinfectant because the gas thus set free attacks germs and destroys them. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• This evidently destroys the precedent reasoning concerning the cause of thought or perception. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Every day, uncontrolled fire wipes out human lives and destroys vast amounts of property; every day, fire, controlled and regulated in stove and furnace, cooks our food and warms our houses. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• But of course the wooden seat is wrong--it destroys the perfect lightness and unity in tension the cane gave. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The removal of either of these destroys the passion; which evidently proves that the cause Is a compounded one. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I could have been--but this nasty Lady W---- destroys half my illusion. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

阿斯特编辑