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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, this bad habit of squatters or natives will end in the destruction of these magnificent trees, and they will disappear like the cedars of Lebanon, those world monuments burnt by unlucky camp fires.
-- "Anything is better, in my judgment," said John Mangles, "than braving certain destruction on a stranded vessel."
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the mighty son of Saturn surely promised that we should succeed, when we Argives set sail to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans.
-- Achilles and I are quarrelling about this girl, in which matter I was the first to offend; if we can be of one mind again, the Trojans will not stave off destruction for a day.
-- BOOK III hen the companies were thus arrayed, each under its Wown captain, the Trojans advanced as a flight of wild fowl or cranes that scream overhead when rain and win-ter drive them over the flowing waters of Oceanus to bring death and destruction on the Pygmies, and they wrangle in the air as they fly; but the Achaeans marched silently, in high heart, and minded to stand by one another.
-- Tlepolemus's spear struck Sarpedon on the left thigh with such force that it tore through the flesh and grazed the bone, but his father as yet warded off destruction from him.
-- Hector then shouted to them and said, 'Trojans, Ly-cians, and Dardanians, lovers of close fighting, be men, my friends, and fight with might and with main; I see that Jove is minded to vouchsafe victory and great glory to myself, while he will deal destruction upon the Danaans.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So in solitude I came round by the ravine of the Beast People, and hiding among the weeds and reeds that sepa-rated this crevice from the sea I watched such of them as appeared, trying to judge from their gestures and appear-ance how the death of Moreau and Montgomery and the destruction of the House of Pain had affected them.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His figured panoply of death looked more like a disguise assumed in mockery than a fierce annunciation of a desire to carry destruction in his footsteps.
-- The onset and the issue were like the passage and destruction of a whirl-wind.
-- The sounds of the battle were over, and they had fed fat their ancient grudge, and had avenged their recent quarrel with the Mengwe, by the destruction of a whole community.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft did the same on his side, his hands in his pockets, yawning now and then like a man who did not know how to kill the time, but really dreading, like his friend, either the escape or destruction of the balloon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And think what destruction such a mass would cause, if hurled with the speed of an express train against the hull of a vessel."
-- The horrible scene of destruction was continually before my eyes.
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 the first great step in undoing, the first great phase of chaos, the substitution of the mechanical principle for the organic, the destruction of the organic purpose, the organic unity, and the subordination of every organic unit to the great mechanical purpose.
-- Those who are timed for destruction must die now.
-- 'There is a phase in every race '" he read in the sing-song, slow, distinct voice of a clergyman reading the Scriptures, "'When the desire for destruction overcomes every other desire.
-- In the individual, this desire is ultimately a desire for destruction in the self' hic! " he paused and looked up.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That it was possible even for justice itself to confound the innocent with the guilty when they were in accidental companionship, he knew already; and that deeply -laid plans for the destruction of inconveniently knowing or over-communicative persons, had been really devised and carried out by the Jew on more occasions than one, he thought by no means unlikely, when he recollected the general nature of the altercations between that gentleman and Mr. Sikes: which seemed to bear reference to some foregone conspiracy of the kind.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, we committed our souls to God in the most earnest manner; and the wind driving us towards the shore, we hastened our destruction with our own hands, pulling as well as we could towards land.
-- Religion joined in with this prudential resolution; and I was convinced now, many ways, that I was perfectly out of my duty when I was laying all my bloody schemes for the destruction of inno-cent creatures - I mean innocent as to me.
-- I was so filled with indignation at the sight, that I now began to premedi-tate the destruction of the next that I saw there, let them be whom or how many soever.
-- After these thoughts had for some time entertained me, I came to reflect seriously upon the real danger I had been in for so many years in this very island, and how I had walked about in the greatest security, and with all possible tran-quillity, even when perhaps nothing but the brow of a hill, a great tree, or the casual approach of night, had been be-tween me and the worst kind of destruction - viz.
-- He stood like one frightened again, notwithstanding all I had said to him; and I found he was the more amazed, because he did not see me put anything into the gun, but thought that there must be some wonderful fund of death and destruction in that thing, able to kill man, beast, bird, or anything near or far off; and the astonishment this created in him was such as could not wear off for a long time; and I believe, if I would have let him, he would have worshipped me and my gun.
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