Don't tell me she's buggered the TV again! 别告訴我她又把電視機弄壞了！

The acid had burnt a hole in my sweater. 酸把我的毛線衫燒了個洞。

I busted my knee playing basketball. 我打籃球把膝蓋摔破了。

My new trousers got chewed up in my bike chain. 我的新褲子被自行車鏈條鈎破了。

Acid rain poisons fish, destroys forests, and corrodes buildings. 酸雨會毒死魚類，毀滅森林，腐蝕建築。

The war had crippled the country's economy. 戰爭使該國經濟陷於癱瘓。

The front of the car was completely crushed in the accident. 汽車的前部在事故中被徹底壓扁。

The two men were trapped in the crushed cab of the truck.

The tornado cut a wide swathe through the countryside.

The department has been decimated by years of budget cuts. 這個部門已經被幾年的預算削減搞得元氣大傷。

Several workers died in the landslide that engulfed the old factory. 好幾個工人死於吞沒舊工廠的塌方中。

Entire neighbourhoods were flattened during the bombing raids. 整個街區在轟炸中被夷爲平地。

The earthquake knocked out power supplies in many parts of the city.

mangled bodies/wreckage 面目全非的屍體/殘骸

Hurricane Mitch is pummelling the Atlantic coast. 飓風米奇對大西洋海岸造成了巨大破壞。

The fruit is reduced to a pulp and then mixed with sugar. 把水果榨成漿狀，然後拌上糖。

These changes will rip the heart out of the island's economy. 這些變化將嚴重損害這個島的經濟。

Imperial troops sacked Rome in 1527. 帝國部隊於1527年洗劫了羅馬。

The arrival of the home computer spelt doom for the typewriter. 家用電腦的到來結束了打字機時代。

This could deal a mortal blow to his credibility. 這會徹底毀掉他的信用。

The whole building was swallowed up by flames. 整幢樓被大火吞沒了。

Many people died when floods swept their homes away. 許多人在洪水沖毀他們的家園時喪生。

The building was torn apart by the explosion. 該建築被完全炸毀了。

The intruders had torn the house to shreds. 入侵者將這棟房子毀得破破爛爛。

I tore up all the photos of my old boyfriend. 我把以前男友的照片全撕毀了。

The vote could torpedo his political career. 投票表決可能會毀了他的政治生涯。

We weren't hurt in the accident, but the car was totalled. 我們在事故中沒受傷，但車子全毀了。

The previous tenants completely trashed the flat. 以前的房客把這套公寓全給毀了。

All our hopes have been turned to dust.

Some villages had been wiped from the map. 一些村莊已被徹底毀掉了。