devastating
adj. 毀滅性的; 令人震驚的; 給人印象深刻的
v. 毀壞; 使震驚( devastate的現在分詞)
If you describe something as devastating, you are emphasizing that it is very harmful or damaging.
The city of Ormac took the full force of the winds and devastating floods...
奧馬克城受到了狂風和災難性洪水的猛烈襲擊。
Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.
婚外情確實會對婚姻造成毀滅性的影響。
You can use devastating to emphasize that something is very shocking, upsetting, or terrible.
The diagnosis was devastating. She had cancer.
診斷結果令人震驚:她得了癌症。
You can use devastating to emphasize that something or someone is very impressive.
...a devastating display of galloping and jumping...
令人難忘的騎馬飛奔和跳躍表演
I was devastating, if I do say so myself.
如果讓我來說的話,我真是棒極了。
1. making light of;
2. wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction;
3. physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination;
Sichuan along one of Asia's biggest tectonic faults, making it prone to devastating earthquakes.
四川亞洲建築缺陷最嚴重的地區, 它在地震中很受到損失.
A year after the devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan province, we look at the recovery effort.
在中國四川省遭受到特大地震災害的一年之後, 我們關注著重建工作的成就.
However as known to you, we are allowed to prevent an even more devastating scenario.
然而,你們也知曉的是, 我們是可以阻止大規模的毀滅性行徑的.
Failure that is so mortifying and so devastating that it makes you try to become invisible.
失敗是如此壓抑,如此具有破壞性,它讓你變成隱形人.
Third, shifting from devastating forests for arable land to returning farmland to forests.
三是由毀林開荒向退耕還林的轉變.