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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "His cleverness in his calling may have tempted him astray, and what is mirth to the neighbours is ruin to the woman.
-- "And ruin her."
-- Driving in spars at any point and on any system, inch by inch he covered more and more safely from ruin this distracting impersonation of seven hundred pounds.
-- The fact is, these autumn races are the ruin of everybody.
-- The strange neglect which had produced this ruin and waste became the subject of whispered talk among all the people round; and it was elicited from one of Boldwood's men that forgetfulness had nothing to do with it, for he had been reminded of the danger to his corn as many times and as persistently as inferiors dared to do.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is a simpleton, stupid enough to ruin himself by running after----" "There he is!"
-- The quick-witted child of the Charente felt the disadvantage at which he was placed beside this tall, slender dandy, with the clear gaze and the pale face, one of those men who would ruin orphan children without scruple.
-- Oh!he will not find her a good bargain!She is in M. de Trailles' hands, and he will ruin her."
-- So says the gambler; so says the great captain; but the three words that have been the salvation of some few, have been the ruin of many more.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His father was a narrow-minded trader and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would ruin his new gray broadcloth suit, which would cause him to swear horribly in the morning and tellEllen at great length how his horse fell off the bridge in the darkness a palpable lie which would fool no one butwhich would be accepted by all and make him feel very clever.
-- She's feared you mout not unnerstan' but Ah tole her shean' Miss Melly jes' git splashed wid mud an' ruin dey new dresses an' Ah'd 'splain ter you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It opened to the ground, and looked into a most miserable corner of the neglected garden, upon a rank ruin of cabbage-stalks, and one box-tree that had been clipped round long ago, like a pudding, and had a new growth at the top of it, out of shape and of a different color, as if that part of the pudding had stuck to the saucepan and got burnt.
-- "When the ruin is complete," said she, with a ghastly look, "and when they lay me dead, in my bride's dress on the bride's table,--which shall be done, and which will be the finished curse upon him,--so much the better if it is done on this day!"
-- With all that ruin at my feet and about me, it seemed a natural place for me, that day.
-- The nooks of ruin where the old monks had once had their refectories and gardens, and where the strong walls were now pressed into the service of humble sheds and stables, were almost as silent as the old monks in their graves.
-- And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they came to the sea, they got into a ship and dur-ing their voyage the two eldest said to themselves, 'Our brother has got the water which we could not find, there-fore our father will forsake us and give him the kingdom, which is our right'; so they were full of envy and revenge, and agreed together how they could ruin him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How it came to pass, that people were so violently bent upon getting into this assembly, which I allowed to be a great trouble and ex-160 Gulliver's Travelspense, often to the ruin of their families, without any salary or pension?
-- How often did I then wish myself with my dear Glum-dalclitch, from whom one single hour had so far divided me!And I may say with truth, that in the midst of my own misfortunes I could not forbear lamenting my poor nurse, the grief she would suffer for my loss, the displeasure of the queen, and the ruin of her fortune.
-- Otherwise, as avarice is the necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would in time become proprietors of the whole nation, and engross the civil power, which, for want of abili-ties to manage, must end in the ruin of the public.
-- I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was nei-ther physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, house-breakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, stroll-ing whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- B., aged twenty-four next birthday, and committed for eighteen months' solitary, had himself said (not that he had ever shown himself particularly worthy of belief) his ruin began, as he was perfectly sure and confident that otherwise he would have been a tip-top moral specimen.
-- She erected in her mind a mighty Staircase, with a dark pit of shame and ruin at the bottom; and down those stairs, from day to day and hour to hour, she saw Louisa coming.
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