1.destroy 強(qiáng)調(diào)以具有摧毀或殺傷性的力量把某物徹底毀掉.
Why,you may wonder,should spiders be our friends?Because they destroy so many insects,…
你也許會(huì)覺得奇異,蜘蛛怎么竟是我們的朋友?因?yàn)樗鼈儦缒敲炊嗟睦ハx.
As long ago as the fourteenth century,an Englishman,Sir John Hawkood,made the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.
早在14世紀(jì),一位名叫約翰·霍克伍德爵士的英國人,就有過非凡的發(fā)現(xiàn)：人們寧肯支付大筆金錢也不肯把自己畢生的事業(yè)讓暴徒毀掉.
2.ruin 亦指徹底毀掉,但不含有以某種摧毀性的力量進(jìn)行破壞,而含有在一定的過程中逐漸毀掉的意思
Oxford has been ruined by the motor industry.
牛津城已經(jīng)被汽車工業(yè)毀掉了.
The crops are nearly ruined by the continuous rain.
繼續(xù)不斷的雨水幾乎毀壞了這些農(nóng)作物.
3.damage是破壞,常常是局部的,或可以修好的.
The storm did a lot of damage to the crops.
暴風(fēng)雨使莊稼受到了很大損失.