ruin是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 毁灭； (使) 破产n. 毁灭， 崩溃； (pl. ) 废墟，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's a weakness of mine, and that's the way I ruin myself,' said old Joe.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes," she went on, "become your mistress, and complete the ruin of..." Again she would have said "my son," but she could not utter that word.
-- The chief secretary of his department and his private secretary were aware of this, and used to warn women who came with petitions on no account to give way to tears, if they did not want to ruin their chances.
-- The department hostile to Alexey Alexandrovitch proved that the condition of the native tribes was exceedingly flourishing, that the proposed reconstruction might be the ruin of their prosperity, and that if there were anything wrong, it arose mainly from the failure on the part of Alexey Alexandrovitch's department to carry out the measures prescribed by law.
-- He'll keep himself in the right, while me, in my ruin, he'll drive still lower to worse ruin yet..." She recalled the words from the letter.
-- A wretched Russian nag they'll ruin, but keep good dray- horses--they won't ruin them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A word from Passepartout to his master would ruin all.
-- "You are right, madam," replied Fix; "a meeting between them might ruin all.
-- It was his fault, for, instead of helping his master, he had not ceased putting obstacles in his path!And when he recalled all the incidents of the tour, when he counted up the sums expended in pure loss and on his own account, when he thought that the immense stake, added to the heavy charges of this useless journey, would completely ruin Mr. Fogg, he overwhelmed himself with bitter self-accusations.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Of course I don't suppose it'll make any difference to a bunch of wise galoots like you that some day you'll marry a nice bright little woman and ruin her life with your vices.
-- He saw a storm coming: Mr. Tozer denouncing him as a failure who desired to ruin Leora, Mrs. Tozer weeping.
-- During Clean-up Week, Pickerbaugh spread abroad a new lyric of his own composition: Germs come by stealth And ruin health, So listen, pard, Just drop a card To some man who'll clean up your yard And that will hit the old germs hard.
-- It would ruin the tourist and export business."
-- To have the existence of the plague admitted in the first place, he had had to fight the merchants controlling the House of Assembly, who had howled that a quarantine would ruin them, and who now refused to give him complete power and tried to manage the epidemic with a Board of Health, which was somewhat worse than navigating a ship during a typhoon by means of a committee.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Trifles, trifles are what matter!Why, it's just such trifles that always ruin everything芒聙娄.'
-- You could only perhaps ruin yourself, and, besides, Dounia would not allow it; and fill up my letter with trifles when my heart was so full of sorrow, I could not.
-- If I ruin anyone, it is only myself芒聙娄.
-- Whatever may come to me, whether I come to ruin or not, I want to be alone.
-- Known, that is, for a fact, that they would be the ruin of Katerina Ivanovna and the children and yourself thrown in since you don't count yourself for anything Polenka too 芒聙娄 for she'll go the same way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Em'ly's run away!Oh, Mas'r Davy, think how she's run away,when I pray my good and gracious God to kill her (her that is sodear above all things) sooner than let her come to ruin anddisgrace!'
-- Mr. Dick was so very complacent, sitting on the foot of the bed,nursing his leg, and telling me this, with his eyes wide open and asurprised smile, that I am sorry to say I was provoked intoexplaining to him that ruin meant distress, want, and starvation;but, I was soon bitterly reproved for this harshness, by seeing hisface turn pale, and tears course down his lengthened cheeks, whilehe fixed upon me a look of such unutterable woe, that it mighthave softened a far harder heart than mine.
-- I believe he actually beganto be afraid he really had been doing something, tending to theannihilation of the British constitution, and the ruin of the country.
-- Sordid in my grief, sordid in my love, sordid inmy miserable escape from the darker side of both, oh see the ruin Iam, and hate me, shun me!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The impertinence of the Eltons, which for a few minutes had threatened to ruin the rest of her evening, had been the occasion of some of its highest satisfactions; and she looked forward to anoth-er happy result the cure of Harriet's infatuation. From Harriet's manner of speaking of the circumstance before they quitted the ballroom, she had strong hopes.
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