Ruinous

(a.) Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project.

(a.) Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.

(a.) Composed of, or consisting in, ruins.

安托万整理

• His only hope was to plead again with May, and on the day before his departure he walked with her to the ruinous garden of the Spanish Mission. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The vices of levity and vanity necessarily render him ridiculous, and are, besides, almost as ruinous to him as they are to the common people. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Readers, can you conceive anything half so monstrous, half so ruinous to black-pudding men, so destructive to the rising generation? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Such a fiction is suicidal, ruinous, impious. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Ma's ruinous to everything. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The Rector was obliged to take up the money at a ruinous interest, and had been struggling ever since. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• One day, as he went prancing down a quiet street, he saw at the window of a ruinous castle the lovely face. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• If you are not guilty, have a care of appearances, which are as ruinous as guilt. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Houses in twos and threes pass by us, solitary farms, ruinous buildings, dye-works, tanneries, and the like, open country, avenues of leafless trees. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Even those Scotch banks which never distinguished themselves by their extreme imprudence, were sometimes obliged to employ this ruinous resource. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• That church, whose dark, half-ruinous turrets overlooked the square, was the venerable and formerly opulent shrine of the Magi. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It was merely ruinous to try to work her by conviction. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Presently we came to a ruinous old town on a hill, the same being the ancient Jezreel. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Jo lives--that is to say, Jo has not yet died--in a ruinous place known to the like of him by the name of Tom-all-Alone's. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It was their infatuated perseverance in an unjustifiable, a hopeless, a ruinous war, which had brought the nation to its present pass. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The Neapolitan tax, therefore, is not near so ruinous as the Spanish one. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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