ruin

詳細解釋：

ru.in

n.（名詞）
Total destruction or disintegration, either physical, moral, social, or economic.
毀滅，滅亡：肉體上、道德上、社會上或經濟上的完全毀壞或粉碎
A cause of total destruction.
禍根：整體毀壞的原因

The act of destroying totally.
毀滅：整體破壞的作為
A destroyed person, object, or building.
搗毀的東西：被破壞的人、物體或建築物
Often ruins The remains of something destroyed, disintegrated, or decayed:
常作 ruins 廢墟，遺蹟：被毀壞、瓦解或腐爛的某物的遺蹟：
例句：
studied the ruins of ancient Greece.
研究古希臘遺蹟

v.（動詞）
ru.ined,ru.in.ing,ru.ins
v.tr.（及物動詞）
To destroy completely; demolish.
徹底破壞；毀滅
To harm irreparably.
弄壞，糟蹋：把…無可挽回地傷害
To reduce to poverty or bankruptcy.
沒落，破產
To deprive of chastity.
使墮落， *
v.intr.（不及物動詞）
To fall into ruin.
成為廢墟，被毀滅

來源：
Middle English ruine
中古英文 ruine
from Old French
源自 古法文
from Latin ruona
源自 拉丁語 ruona
from ruere [to rush, collapse]
源自 ruere [猛衝，崩潰]

【引伸】
ru.inable
adj.（形容詞）
ru.iner
n.（名詞）
<參考辭彙><同義詞>ruin,raze,demolish,destroy,wreckThese verbs mean to injure and deprive something—or, less often, someone—of usefulness, soundness, or value.
這些動詞的意思是傷害且使某物，有時是人失去用處、聲音或價值。
Ruin usually implies irretrievable harmbut not necessarily total destruction:
Ruin 通常暗指無可挽回的傷害，但並不一定指完全毀滅：
例句：
The fire ruined the books in the library.
大火毀壞了圖書館的書。

例句：
.You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. (Arthur Conan Doyle).
.你不會再象破壞我的生活一樣破壞其他人的生活了. （亞瑟·柯南道爾）。

Raze, to level to the ground,
Raze 指夷為平地，
demolish, to pull down or break to pieces,and the more generaldestroy, to tear down, can all imply reduction to ruins or even complete obliteration:
demolish 指推倒或粉碎，destroy 的意義更廣泛，指拆毀，拆卸。 這三個詞都可指使變為廢墟或徹底消失：
例句：
.raze what was left of the city from the surface of the earth. (John Lothrop Motley).
.使這個城市剩下的東西從地球表面上消失. （約翰·路斯洛普·莫特利）。

例句：
The conquerors tried to raze the very name of the people`s national hero from their memories.
征服者妄圖把人民的民族英雄的名字從他們的記憶中抹去。

例句：
Both of the cars involved were demolished in the accident.
事故中的兩輛車都被毀破。

例句：
The prosecutor demolished the opposition`s argument.
檢查官徹底推翻了反對派的論點。

例句：
.It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it. (Anonymous major in Vietnam).
.為了拯救這個鎮，有必要毀壞它. （越南的無名陸軍少校）。

例句：
.I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. (Allen Ginsberg).Towreck is to ruin in or as if in a violent collision:
.我看到我們時代最偉大的心靈被瘋狂所毀滅. （阿倫·金斯堡）。wreck 指用或好象用 * 毀壞：

例句：
.The Boers had just wrecked a British military train. (Arnold Bennett).Whenwreck is used in its extended sense, as in referring to the ruination of a person or his or her hopes or reputation, it implies irreparable shattering:
.布爾人剛剛毀了一輛英國軍用火車. （阿諾德·貝奈特）。Wreck 用於其延伸意義時（如指毀壞一個人或他或她的希望或名聲）， 暗指無可挽回的毀滅：

例句：
.Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium. (Matthew Arnold).
詩人和哲學家柯爾律治被鴉片的煙霧斷送了. （馬修·阿諾德）