The village was destroyed by a landslide.是什么意思？

The village was destroyed by a landslide.

滑坡摧毀了村庄.

the

art. 指已提到的人（物），指说话人与听者已知的人（物），用于独一无二的事物前，与形容词最高级和序数词连用；

例句
He did have a real knowledge of the country...
他对该国的确知之甚多。

village

n. 村民，乡村，村庄，群落；

例句
Houses in the village are selling for astronomical prices...
乡村的房价正在飙升。

was

v. 用来表示某人或某物即主语本身，用来表示某人或某物属于某一群体或有某种性质（ be的过去式 ），在，存在，不受干扰；

例句
There was a terrible sadness in her eyes...
她眼神中流露出深深的悲伤。

destroyed

v. 破坏( destroy的过去式和过去分词 )，毁灭，消灭，杀死；

例句
Weeks of aerial bombardment had destroyed factories and highways...
数周的空中轰炸已经摧毁了许多工厂和公路。

by

prep. 在…旁边，表示方式，由于，经过；adv. 经过，表示保留或保存时用，短暂拜访；

例句
...expensive make-up that we saw being advertised by a beautiful model...
我们所见的由一位漂亮模特代言的昂贵化妆品

landslide

n. [地]山崩，大胜利；

例句
A seven-year-old boy was found dead after a landslide engulfed a block of flats...
山体滑坡掩埋了一栋公寓楼，造成一名7岁男孩丧生。