ruin是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 毁灭； (使) 破产n. 毁灭， 崩溃； (pl. ) 废墟，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If excessive consumption threatens to exterminate the fish of a river, or ruin the early crop of sweet potatoes, these things are put under the protection of the taboo.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lodge was a ruin of black granite and bared ribs of rafters, but facing it was a new building, half constructed, the first fruit of Sir Charles's South African gold.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If only he could find an opportunity of coming close up to Nastasia Philipovna and saying to her: 'Don't ruin your-self by marrying this man.
-- You were about to ruin your-self just now, irrevocably; you would never have forgiven yourself for so doing afterwards; and yet, you are absolutely blameless.
-- 'You thought I should accept this good child's invitation to ruin him, did you?'
-- nonsense, Daria Alexeyevna; you surely did not expect me to ruin HIM?'
-- I have always told you that I con-sider a marriage between you and her would be ruin to her.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Father Jove, did you ever so ruin a great king and rob him so utterly of his greatness?
-- This night will either be the ruin of our host, or save it.'
-- I never saw nor heard tell of any man as having wrought such ruin in one day as Hector has now wrought against the sons of the Achaeans and that too of his own unaided self, for he is son neither to god nor goddess.
-- There is nothing wrong in flying ruin even by night.
-- He tried, moreover, to cut off the ears of both of us, so we went away in a rage, furious about the payment he had promised us, and yet withheld; in spite of all this, you are now showing favour to his people, and will not join us in compassing the utter ruin of the proud Trojans with their wives and children.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ruin the work of a lifetime,' I heard Moreau say.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said half a dozen low voic-es (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He pressed his finger on his lip, and drew the child along by narrow courts and winding ways, nor did he seem at ease until they had left it far behind, often casting a backward look towards it, murmuring that ruin and self-murder were crouching in every street, and would follow if they scented them; and that they could not fly too fast.
-- But night-time in this dreadful spot! night, when the smoke was changed to fire; when every chimney spirited up its flame; and places, that had been dark vaults all day, now shone red-hot, with figures moving to and fro within their blazing jaws, and calling to one another with hoarse cries night, when the noise of every strange machine was aggravated by the darkness; when the people near them looked wilder and more savage; when bands of unemployed labourers paraded the roads, or clustered by torch-light round their leaders, who told them, in stern language, of their wrongs, and urged them on to frightful cries and threats; when maddened men, armed with sword and firebrand, spurning the tears and prayers of women who would restrain them, rushed forth on errands of terror and destruction, to work no ruin half so surely as their own night, when carts came rumbling by, filled with rude coffins (for contagious disease and death had been busy with the living crops); when orphans cried, and distracted women shrieked and followed in their wake night, when some called for bread, and some for drink to drown their cares, and some with tears, and some with staggering feet, and some with bloodshot eyes, went brooding home night, which, unlike the night that Heaven sends on earth, brought with it no peace, nor quiet, nor signs of blessed sleep who shall tell the terrors of the night to the young wandering child!
-- Hard by these gravestones of dead years, and forming a part of the ruin which some pains had been taken to render habitable in modern times, were two small dwellings with sunken windows and oaken doors, fast hastening to decay, empty and desolate.
-- 'Gentlemen,' cried Kit, on whom a light broke suddenly, 'Master, Mr Abel, Mr Witherden, every one of you he did it!What I have done to offend him, I don't know, but this is a plot to ruin me.
-- 'It is surely,' said Mr Garland, 'in the ruin where they live.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was painful to him to grieve her, but he knew that the slightest weakness would ruin him, i. e., bind him.
-- That will ruin us entirely."
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor's office was a painful one. She was going to remove what she really believed to be her sister's chief consolation, to give such particulars of Edward as she feared would ruin him for ever in her good opinion,-and to make Marianne, by a resemblance in their situations, which to HER fancy would seem strong, feel all her own disappointment over again.
-- But in the interim in the interim of the very few hours that were to pass, before I could have an opportunity of speaking with her in private a circumstance occurred an unlucky circumstance, to ruin all my resolution, and with it all my comfort.
-- Her smile however changed to a sigh when she remembered that promise to Willoughby was yet unfulfilled, and feared she had that to communicate which might again unsettle the mind of Marianne, and ruin at least for a time this fair prospect of busy tranquillity.
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