ruinous
adj. <书> 耗资巨大的; 无法承担的; 破坏性的; 导致严重问题的
If you describe the cost of something as ruinous, you mean that it costs far more money than you can afford or than is reasonable.
Many Britons will still fear the potentially ruinous costs of their legal system.
很多英国人仍然会对其司法体系可能产生的高昂费用表示担忧。
A ruinous process or course of action is one that is likely to lead to ruin.
The economy of the state is experiencing the ruinous effects of the conflict.
这个国家的经济正受到这次冲突的毁灭性影响。
1. extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin;
2. causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin;
For newspapers, magazines and television programmes , with their high fixed costs, such fluctuations would be ruinous.
这样的起伏波动,对于像报纸, 杂志及电视这样高成本的媒介来说, 是致命的.
And in the long run it brings ruinous consequences to the whole community.
而且就长期而言,它会给整个社会造成破坏性后果.
More often it was impatience that was ruinous.
但更多时候误事的原因是他的性子太急.
They took a ruinous expenditure on the house.
他们为了那所房子倾家荡产.
Herbicide in railway bed often caused the accident pollution in the Itis indirect, sudden and ruinous.
铁路路基施除草剂对农田造成的药害污染一般为间接的 、 突发的、毁灭性的.