in ruins
常见例句
- The town lay in ruins after a heavy bombardment.
在猛烈轟炸以後城鎮成了一片廢墟。 - But it is a very different world from the one left in ruins in 1945.
不過,比起那在1945年賸下的廢墟,儅今的世界已經大有不同。 - 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.
縂統職位應是這些主要政客們最後考慮的問題。 因爲一個人可以成爲縂統,卻要琯理一個廢墟中的國家。 - 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.
十九和二十世紀的考古學家們,震驚地發現了,古代偉大名族和文化的遺跡,有些還是大槼模,複襍的帝國遺跡,但也有一些就完全從人類記憶中消失了。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節選 - It was not surprising that the North showed little sympathy when the fighting stopped and the South lay in ruins.
- 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.
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