destruction是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 毁坏， 毁灭(的原因)，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：
-- So wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds, that Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross, while engaged in the commission of their deed and in the removal of its traces, almost felt, and almost looked, like accomplices in a horrible crime.
-- Listen!For other crimes as tyrants and oppressors, I have this race a long time on my register, doomed to destruction and extermination.
-- If he had given any utterance to his, and they were prophetic, they would have been these: 'I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Ju-535ryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, perishing by this retributive instrument, before it shall cease out of its pres-ent use.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He reflected (it was an international debate in which he was joined by a few and damned by many) that half a dozen generations nearly free from epidemics would produce a race so low in natural immunity that when a great plague, suddenly springing from almost-zero to a world-smothering cloud, appeared again, it might wipe out the world entire, so that the measures to save lives to which he lent his genius might in the end be the destruction of all human life.
-- On an evening perhaps a fortnight after the destruction of the McCandless tenements, Martin was working late in the laboratory.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The second category all trans-gress the law; they are destroyers or disposed to destruction according to their capacities.
-- The crimes of these men are of course relative and varied; for the most part they seek in very varied ways the destruction of the present for the sake of the better.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The incident is soimpressed on my remembrance, that if I were a draughtsman Icould draw its form here, I dare say, accurately as it was that day,and little Em'ly springing forward to her destruction (as itappeared to me), with a look that I have never forgotten, directedfar out to sea.
-- He had asingular red cap on,- not like a sailor's cap, but of a finer colour;and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolledand bulged, and his anticipative death-knell rung, he was seen byall of us to wave it.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.
-- This also was my doing!And my father's woe, and the desolation of that late so smiling home all was the work of my thrice-ac-cursed hands!Ye weep, unhappy ones, but these are not your last tears!Again shall you raise the funeral wail, and the sound of your lamentations shall again and again be heard!Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenanc-es, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!
-- The path, as you ascend nigher, is inter-sected by ravines of snow, down which stones continually 110 Frankensteinroll from above; one of them is particularly dangerous, as the slightest sound, such as even speaking in a loud voice, produces a concussion of air sufficient to draw destruction upon the head of the speaker.
-- All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment; I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself -unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.
-- Sometimes I entreated my attendants to assist me in the destruction of the fiend by whom I was tormented; and at others I felt the fingers of the monster already grasping my neck, and screamed aloud with agony and terror.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He argued, 'that the very laws of nature absolutely required we should have been made, in the beginning of a size more large and robust; not so liable to destruction from every lit-tle accident, of a tile falling from a house, or a stone cast from the hand of a boy, or being drowned in a little brook.'
-- For if, in its perihelion, it should approach within a certain degree of the sun (as by their calculations they have reason to dread) it will receive a degree of heat ten thousand times more intense than that of red hot glowing iron, and in its absence from the sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen miles long, through which, if the earth should pass at the distance of one hundred thousand miles from the nucleus, or main body of the comet, it must in its passage be set on fire, and reduced to ashes: that the sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with the destruction of this earth, and of all the planets that receive their light from it.
-- But if they still continue obstinate, or offer to raise insurrections, he proceeds to the last remedy, by letting the island drop directly upon their heads, which makes a universal destruction both of houses and men.
-- I have often since reflected, what destruction such doctrine would make in the libraries of Europe; and how many paths of fame would be then shut up in the learned world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gold and silver coin, precious paper, secrets that if divulged would bring vague destruction upon vague persons (generally, however, people whom she disliked), were the chief items in her ideal catalogue thereof.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On earth during the most profound and comparatively complete darkness, light never allows a complete destruction and extinction of its power.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For besides the great length of the whaling voyage, the numerous articles peculiar to the prosecution of the fishery, and the impossibility of replacing them at the remote harbors usually frequented, it must be remembered, that of all ships, whaling vessels are the most exposed to accidents of all kinds, and especially to the destruction and loss of the very things upon which the success of the voyage most depends.
-- Again, it is very often observed that, if the sperm whale, once struck, is allowed time to rally, he then acts, not so often with blind rage, as with wilful, deliberate designs of destruction to his pursuers; nor is it without conveying some eloquent indication of his character, that upon being attacked he will frequently open his mouth, and retain it in that dread expansion for several consecutive minutes.
-- And though the other boats, unharmed, still hovered hard by; still they dared not pull into the eddy to strike, lest that should be the signal for the instant destruction of the jeopardized castaways, Ahab and all; nor in that case could they themselves hope to escape.
-- The first uprising momentum of the whale modifying its direction as he struck the surface involuntarily launched him along it, to a little distance from the centre of the destruction he had made; and with his back to it, he now lay for a moment slowly feeling with his flukes from side to side; and whenever a stray oar, bit of plank, the least chip or crumb of the boats touched his skin, his tail swiftly drew back, and came sideways smiting the sea.
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