ravages的意思|ravages的解释-里氏词典

ravages ['rævɪdʒ]

n. 劫掠后的残迹, 破坏的结果, 毁坏后的残迹

Even allowing for the ravages of the cycle, it looks as though Thames paid too much for the likes of UTAG in east Germany. Still, Thames has an impressive ability to take out costs in the basic water business.
It was the first opera house to be built in Berlin, and its fine classical exterior has survived the ravages of fire and wartime bombing.
Johnson does extremely well to hold dry cleaning profits and even better to build a textile rental division through the ravages of recession. When the eventual upturn comes - and only then - Johnson is expected to show substantial improvements.
Distinguished himself as a technocrat who helped preserve Lebanon's economy and banking system against the ravages of the civil war.
But, for all the glamour of the mega-gigs, not even rock can escape the ravages of recession. The signs have even been seen at concerts once expected to generate strong demand.
From Buffalo's rusty waterfront to the steel-mill hulks of Pittsburgh, a small but growing movement is underway to save examples of industry from the ravages of the post-industrial age by preserving them as national parks.
The current PBS series doesn't neglect the ravages that the age of discovery brought to the native peoples of the new land.
Bernstein, 71, was to have conducted Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in a concert opening the 14th festival and celebrating Charleston's recovery from the ravages of Hurricane Hugo.
A Minneapolis banker last week coined a new expression, "government drought," in assuring the Journal's Jeff Bailey that banks aren't expecting heavy losses from this dry summer's farm-belt ravages.
He was instrumental in passage of the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, and fought to end ocean pollution and to protect his largely coastal New Jersey district from the ravages of erosion.
Fireman's Fund Corp. said third-quarter net income plunged 85% to $7.2 million from last year's $49.1 million, or 99 cents a share, because of ravages of Hurricane Hugo and increased reserves for legal expenses.
President Bush says Hollywood is owed thanks for recent movies that have portrayed the ravages of drug addiction.
This pretty village near Windsor Castle survived the ravages of the Black Death.
Mr. Milken was obsessed with cancer's ravages, having lost a father, a stepfather, a mother-in-law and several aunts to the disease.
The jumps come as money managers are trying to trim the cash from their portfolios that has protected their performance so far from the ravages of the bear market.
"We'll focus on ways to protect workers, farmers, the aged and the poor against the ravages of Reagonomics," he said.
We have all lived through the tortures of disease; however, none is more devastating than the ravages of Alzheimer's.

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