ravaging是什么意思？

ravaging

• v. 毁坏( ravage的现在分词 )，蹂躏，劫掠，抢劫；

例句

• This louse devastated European vineyards between 1860 and 1880 and its descendants are now ravaging Californian grape vines. 这种虫害在1860年到1880年间毁灭了欧洲葡萄园,而它们的后代现在也给加州的葡萄秧造成损害.
• I was able to capture the lion that was ravaging through town. 我能逮住正在城里肆虐的那头狮子.
• The crash had spilled a noxious defoliant into the planet's ecology, ravaging the native flora. 这次坠毁将一种有害的落叶剂洒入星球的生态系统中, 破坏着当地的植物群.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  毁坏;摧毁;搞垮
  A town, country, or economy that has been ravaged is one that has been damaged so much that it is almost completely destroyed.
  例句
  For two decades the country has been ravaged by civil war and foreign intervention. 20年来，这个国家一直被内战外侵所蹂躏。 ...the ravaged streets of Sarajevo. 萨拉热窝那些被毁坏的街道

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. plundering with excessive damage and destruction
• Adjective
  1. ruinously destructive and wasting;
  "a ravaging illness"