The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city.
这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
1.蹂躏,破坏;使荒废
1.to seriously damage or completely destroy something
2.to make someone feel very shocked and upset
1.Wide regions had been systematically devastate by the enemy or pulverised in the encounter of the armies.
大片大片的地区接连地遭受敌人的破坏，或在两军激战中沦为一片焦土。
2.Most female insects should have this sort of receptor including the kinds that spread disease and devastate crops .
大多数的雌性昆虫应该有这种接收器，包括那些传播疾病和毁坏庄稼的种类。
3.Martin Wolf described banking as "virtually the only business able to devastate entire economies" .
马丁-沃尔夫（MartinWolf）将银行业形容为“实质上是唯一能够拖垮整个经济的行业”。
4.But force would devastate the image of a state that he exalts as the pinnacle of good governance.
但是武力将会破坏他鼓吹的完美统治的国家形象。
5.Explosions like this would devastate life on Earth. For Jupiter, they were no more than a bee sting.
像这样的爆炸能摧毁地球上的生物，但对木星来说只不过像被蜜蜂螫了一下而已。
6.A trade war of the kind unleashed by the Smoot-Hawley tariff could devastate the entire world trading system.
《斯姆特-霍利关税法》引发的同类贸易战争可以摧毁全球贸易体系。
7.It is no exaggeration to say, that unless we act, these costs will devastate the US economy.
可以毫不夸张地说，除非我们采取行动，这些费用将进一步损害美国经济。
8.Promising a bit more aid is easier than dismantling food subsidies that favour Western farmers but devastate African ones.
允诺提供多一点的援助要比取消粮食补贴更加容易。粮食补贴惠及发达国家的农民，但对非洲农民来说则是灾难。
9.That told us two things: that our earthquake must have been vast, Richter scale 9, to devastate part of Japan thousands of miles away.
这告诉我们两件事情：我们的地震大至芮氏规模9，蹂躏几千哩外的日本。
10.I have some news that's probably gonna devastate you. But I wanted to be the first one to tell you.
我有件事要和你说可能会影响到你的心情但我希望能第一个告诉你。