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ruin
Word family
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ruin• I thought my career, my friendships and my whole life was ruined.• Surely you don't want to ruin all our good work, do you?• Many firms have been ruined by hasty decisions.• The Zimmerman's house was ruined by the flood.• The rain had ruined her best velvet skirt.• She is still angry with the suppliers, who she says ruined her by failing to deliver on time.• Phelps's mistake has ruined her chances of winning the championship.• The incident has all but ruined her financially.• She almost hated them for ruining her life.• In college he loved a young girl of a lower class and ruined her; she died a suicide.• Alcohol and drugs almost ruined his career.• And if you are ruined, Mr Dollington, it will be by your own hand.• Patty's ex-boyfriend is ruining our relationship.• I've seen a lot of good coppers ruined that way.• A long strike would ruin the company.• Serious in-fighting ruined the Conservatives' chances of winning the election.• But this would have ruined the entire tax system.• John and Sandy argued all the time, which completely ruined the evening for the rest of us.• The only thing that ruined the game for me was the time it took to load each room.• Protestors say that the proposed new airport will ruin this peaceful area.• How can you prevent stomach upsets from ruining your holiday?• Don't use harsh soap to wash your face. It will ruin your skin.
ruin2 ●●○ noun
1 [uncountableU]FAIL a situation in which you have lost all your money, your social position, or the good opinion that people had about you 破产；垮台；身败名裂
be on the road to ruin (=be doing something that will make you lose your money, position etc) 正在走向毁灭
2 [countableC] (also ruins)TBCREMAIN/BE LEFT the part of a building that is left after the rest has been destroyed 残垣断壁，废墟
3 the ruins of something DESTROYthe parts of something such as an organization, system, or set of ideas that remain after the rest have been destroyed 〔组织、体制、思想等的〕残余部分
Examples from the Corpus
the ruins of something• Walking amongst the ruins of an ancient city, for example, it is impossible to gain an overall impression of the layout.• However, the ruins of the old city are clearly visible, stretching along the coast and over half a mile inland.• The party was held in the ruins of Persepolis, which was built by Darius and burned by Alexander the Great.• They created a stable and prosperous society on the ruins of the old totalitarian regime.• They had now reached the ruins of the temple.• In a thousand years, archaeologists will be digging through the ruins of what was once San Francisco.• Construction was halted when excavation work on the baroque square unearthed the ruins of a medieval synagogue destroyed in 1421.• Finally-and Stillman dwelled upon this at great length-whoever looked upon the ruins of the Tower was believed to forget everything he knew.• The countryside here is dotted with the ruins of churches the government has torn down or blown up in recent weeks.
4 be/lie in ruins
b) FAILif someone’s life, a country’s economy etc is in ruins, it is affected by very great problems 〔生活、国家经济等〕崩溃，垮掉
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be/lie in ruins• Large rural areas lay in ruins.• Whole blocks of the city were in ruins after the war.• Our economy lies in ruins.• Elizabeth Jarvis said it was like St Paul's Cathedral, miraculously saved while all around it lay in ruins.• Abingdon's trade had been waning for some time, with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538.• He thought the surrounding towns must lie in ruins now, too.• The centrepiece was a gradual revaluation of the lira against the dollar-a strategy which now lies in ruins.• It was to lie in ruins for another sixty-one years.• I have said, and I say again, that Trantor will lie in ruins within the next five centuries.
5 fall into ruin (also go to ruin)DESTROY if something falls into ruin, it gets damaged or destroyed because no one is taking care of it 〔因无人照料而〕衰落，败落
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fall into ruin• In 1685 the castle was burnt by the Duke of Argyll and fell into ruin.• The 18th century mansion has fallen into ruin.• Unemployment runs at more than 50 %, and most factories have fallen into ruin.• Miles of poverty with modern adobe dwellings either being built or falling into ruin.
6 be the ruin of somebody LOSE/NOT HAVE ANYMOREto make someone lose all their money, their good health, the good opinion that other people have of them etc 毁了某人
→ go to rack and ruin at rack1(4)Examples from the Corpus
be the ruin of somebody• Manning's love for alcohol was the ruin of him.• And if Mandrake goes public, however ill founded his claims, it could be the ruin of my brokerage.• Feast day, September I.. Drunkeness is the ruin of reason.• Here are the ruins of Valle Crucis Abbey.• Nearby are the ruins of Egglestone Abbey.• Beneath the palace were the ruins of at least three older buildings, he said.• Another important site from Magna Graecia is at Policoro where there are the ruins of ancient Eraclea.
n COLLOCATIONS
adjectives
financial ruin (=when someone loses all or most of their money)
She faces financial ruin after losing the court case.
economic ruin (=when someone loses all their money or when a country loses a lot of its trade, industry, and wealth)
Their policies have been driving this country to economic ruin for the past 13 years.
political ruin
The scandal left the government on the brink of political ruin.
social ruin (=when someone loses their position or rank in society)
verbsIn those days, breaking off your engagement could mean social ruin.
face ruin
Many shopkeepers are facing ruin.
mean ruin (=cause ruin for someone)
They fear that the proposals could mean ruin for small football clubs.
spell ruin (=cause ruin for someone)
Unwise investment can spell financial ruin.
lead to ruin
This policy could lead to utter ruin.
save somebody from ruin
phrasesHe believes the invention saved him from financial ruin.
bring ruin on/to somebody (=cause ruin for someone)
Her behaviour brought ruin on her family.
drive somebody to ruin (=cause ruin for someone)
Farmers told how foot-and-mouth disease was driving them to ruin.
be on the brink/verge of ruin (=be close to ruin)
The recession could leave many businesses on the brink of ruin.
be on the road to ruin (=be certain to happen at some time in the future)
Is America on the road to ruin?
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ruin• Maybe a ruin I can fix up.• financial ruin• Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.• an 800-year-old Mayan ruin• But the other ruins are impressive, ample and accessible.• An exciting feature here is an underground passage leading to a cave deep beneath the ruins.• He'd seen movement in the ruin.• In a thousand years, archaeologists will be digging through the ruins of what was once San Francisco.• There seemed to be so many of them, more and more crowding silently through the ruins wherever she looked.• Sailors mobilized to search for survivors wandered through the ruins in a daze.• We visited the ruins of the old abbey.
financial ruin• Milk contaminated Scientists are stepping up tests to find the source of dioxin contamination which has brought financial ruin to two farmers.• A 35-year-old lawyer faces financial ruin resulting from a serious mental illness.• Pleas that the couple and their two young children will be homeless and facing financial ruin have fallen on deaf ears.• The small businesses facing financial ruin.• In this golden period Tank also sold Peron on nuclear ideas and brought even greater financial ruin as a result.• Much of the plains' cattle industry was in financial ruin.• It would spell financial ruin and possibly the end.• Michael Joyce had not suffered financial ruin by his second emigration.
From Longman Business Dictionary
ruinru·in1 /ˈruːɪn/ noun [uncountableU]
1when you have lost all your money, your social position, or the good opinion that people had of you
The war plunged the country into economic ruin.
a company on the brink of financial ruin (=about to lose all its money)
2in ruins if something is in ruins, it has great problems and cannot continue
countries whose economies are in ruins
ruinruin2 verb [transitiveT]
1to spoil or destroy something completely
The airport’s radar failed, ruining travel plans for 30,000 people.
a scandal that ruined his reputation
2to make someone lose all their money
A series of bad investment decisions threatened to ruin him.
a ruined economy
(1300-1400) Old French ruine, from Latin ruina
ru·in1 verbruin2 noun →n COLLOCATIONS1
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ruin noun
⇨ remains 1 ruin ruin ♦︎ spoil ♦︎ mar ♦︎ wreck These words all mean to make sth unsuccessful, unpleasant, or useless when it had been good. 这些词均表示破坏、糟蹋、毁掉。 SYNONYM SCALE 词义标尺 下图显示这些词所表达破坏的程度
PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配 ◆ to ruin / spoil / wreck sth for sb ◆ to ruin / spoil / mar / wreck sb's career ◆ to ruin / spoil / wreck things / everything ◆ to ruin / spoil / wreck sb's plans / day / evening / life / chances / hopes ◆ to ruin / mar / wreck sb's happiness ◆ to ruin / wreck sb's health / sb's marriage / the economy ◆ to completely / totally / almost / nearly ruin / spoil / mar / wreck sth ◆ to effectively ruin / spoil / wreck sth ■ ruin [transitive ] to damage sth or have a completely negative effect on it so that it is no longer at all successful, enjoyable or useful 毁坏；破坏；糟蹋 ◆ The bad weather completely ruined our trip.坏天气把我们的旅行全毁了。 ◆ You've ruined my whole life!你把我的生活都毁了！ ◆ Years of drinking had ruined his health.长年饮酒毁了他的健康。 ◆ My shoes got totally ruined in the mud.我的新鞋被泥浆给糟蹋了。 ◆ The crop that year was ruined by drought.干旱使那年农作物严重歉收。 ■ spoil (spoiled , spoiled ; BrE also spoilt , spoilt [transitive ] to change sth good into sth bad, unpleasant or useless 破坏；糟蹋；毁掉 ◆ Don't let him spoil your evening.别让他影响你今晚的心情。 ◆ Why do you always have to spoil everything?为什么每样东西都要毁在你手里？ ◆ I don't want to spoil your fun, but it's nearly time to go home.我不想扫你的兴，但是该回家了。 ◆ I won't tell you what happens in the last chapter－I don't want to spoil it for you.我不会告诉你最后一章发生了什么－我不想破坏你的兴致。 NOTE 辨析 Ruin is stronger than spoil : sth that is ruined is completely spoiled; sth that is spoiled may be ruined or just less good than it should be. * ruin的破坏程度要比spoil大，ruin指彻底毁坏。spoil有可能是彻底毁坏，也可能只是让状况较差而已。 ■ mar (-rr- [transitive , often passive ] (formal ) to spoil sth good 破坏；毁坏；损害 ◆ A few violent incidents marred the celebrations.几起暴力事件把庆祝活动给搅了。 ◆ A frown marred his handsome features.皱眉让他的容貌显得不那么英俊了。 ⓘ Mar is often used to talk about the one thing that spoiled sth that was good in other ways. It is not often used in informal spoken English. * mar常指使有瑕疵，使美中不足，不常用于非正式口语 ◆ Why do you always have to mar everything? ■ wreck rek [transitive ] to ruin sth completely （彻底）毁灭，毁掉 ◆ A serious injury in 2006 threatened to wreck his career.2006年的一次重伤差点儿葬送了他的前程。 ◆ His affair wrecked our marriage.他的出轨彻底毁了我们的婚姻。 ⓘ Wreck life, career, marriage, health and happiness . * wreck尤用于谈论人们生活中的要事。表示重要事物的搭配词有life、career、marriage、health和happiness。
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| spoil | ➔ | ruin |
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ruin
To destroy or severely damage something: destroy, ruin, devastate...
To damage or spoil something: damage, spoil, mark...
Changing social or professional status: acquire, ascent, bankrupt...
Destruction and damage: damage, destruction, harm...
Other parts of buildings: addition, alcove, balcony...
Rubbish, litter and remains: e-waste, rubbish, litter...
Losses: loss, ruin, ruination...
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