ruinous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 毁灭性的, 破坏性的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Houses in twos and threes pass by us, solitary farms, ruinous buildings, dye-works, tanneries, and the like, open country, avenues of leafless trees.
-- Out of the open country, in again among ruinous build-ings, solitary farms, dye-works, tanneries, and the like, cottages in twos and threes, avenues of leafless trees.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- According to the signal-man, it was in a ruinous condition, several of the iron wires being broken; and it was impossible to risk the passage.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- George William, who was sometimes known as "Old Jeo Win" and sometimes as "The King of the Ice House" (that enticing and ruinous bar), had been born behind a Little Bethel in Lancashire.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "As I walked I was watching for every impression that could possibly help to explain the condition of ruinous splendour in which I found the world for ruinous it was.
-- I am no specialist in mineralogy, and I went on down a very ruinous aisle running parallel to the first hall I had entered.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was merely ruinous to try to work her by conviction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now, fragments of ruinous enclosure, yawning window-gap and crazy wall, deserted houses, leaking wells, broken water-tanks, spectral cypress-trees, patches of tangled vine, and the changing of the track to a long, irregular, disordered lane where everything was crumbling away, from the unsightly buildings to the jolting road now, these objects showed that they were nearing Rome.
-- 'No, I mean mine, ma'am,' said Pancks, 'for it was my misfortune to lead him into a ruinous investment.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day, as he went prancing down a quiet street, he saw at the window of a ruinous castle the lovely face.
-- She lis-tened to college stories with deep interest, caressed pointers and poodles without a murmur, agreed heartily that 'Tom Brown was a brick,' regardless of the improper form of praise, and when one lad proposed a visit to his turtle tank, she went with an alacrity which caused Mamma to smile upon her, as that motherly lady settled the cap which was left in a ruinous condition by filial hugs, bearlike but affec-tionate, and dearer to her than the most faultless coiffure from the hands of an inspired Frenchwoman.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What is the ruinous discount which Mordecai, the broker, gets from poor Woebegone, the bankrupt, on a loan to keep Woebegone's family from starvation; what is that ruinous discount but a Fast-Fish?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length they turned into a very filthy narrow street, nearly full of old-clothes shops; the dog running forward, as if conscious that there was no further occasion for his keeping on guard, stopped before the door of a shop that was closed and apparently untenanted; the house was in a ruinous condition, and on the door was nailed a board, intimating that it was to let: which looked as if it had hung there for many years.
-- He was about to throw himself on the ground, and make one struggle for his young life, when he saw that they stood before a solitary house: all ruinous and decayed.
-- The clouds, which had been threatening all day, spread out in a dense and sluggish mass of vapour, already yielded large drops of rain, and seemed to presage a violent thunder-storm, when Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, turning out of the main street of the town, directed their course towards a scattered little colony of ruinous houses, distant from it some mile and a-half, or thereabouts, and erected on a low unwholesome swamp, bordering upon the river.
-- It was before this ruinous building that the worthy couple paused, as the first peal of distant thunder reverberated in the air, and the rain commenced pouring violently down.
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