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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They're the ruin of all order.
-- 'What would be the use of their striking again!Merely ruin the industry, what's left of it: and surely the owls are beginning to see it!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Will you have nothing to remember him by but his ruin and decay?
-- This is the way in which Our John has come to find no pleasure but in taking cold among the linen, and in showing in that yard, as in that yard I have myself shown you, a broken-down ruin that goes home to his mother's heart!'
-- I'll ruin you.
-- He began to whimper, just as he had done that night in the prison when she afterwards sat at his bedside till morning; exclaimed that he was a poor ruin and a poor wretch in the midst of his wealth; and clasped her in his arms.
-- 'But my dear Affery; unless I can gain some insight into these hidden things, in spite of your husband and in spite of my mother, ruin will come of it.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A perfect scene of ruin met our eyes, for in his fall Mr. Pickwick had plunged his head and shoulders into a tub of water, upset a keg of soft soap upon his manly form, and torn his garments badly.
-- You shall trudge away, and do your errands in the rain, and if you catch your death and ruin your bonnet, it's no more than you deserve.
-- I see so many going to ruin for want of help at the right min-ute, I love so to do anything for them, I seem to feel their wants, and sympathize with their troubles, and oh, I should so like to be a mother to them!'
-- There were slow boys and bash-ful boys, feeble boys and riotous boys, boys that lisped and boys that stuttered, one or two lame ones, and a merry little quadroon, who could not be taken in elsewhere, but who was welcome to the 'Bhaer-garten', though some people pre-dicted that his admission would ruin the school.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's unfort'nate Stiggs done over again there goes another counterpane God pity his poor mother! it will be the ruin of my house.
-- Hadst thou taken this old blacksmith to thyself ere his full ruin came upon him, then had the young widow had a delicious grief, and her orphans a truly venerable, legendary sire to dream of in their after years; and all of them a care-killing competency.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They will ruin your happiness.
-- To have his errors made public might ruin him for ever.
-- Elizabeth, though she did not credit above half of what was said, be-lieved enough to make her former assurance of her sister's ruin more certain; and even Jane, who believed still less of it, became almost hopeless, more especially as the time was now come when, if they had gone to Scotland, which she had never before entirely despaired of, they must in all probability have gained some news of them.
-- You are de-termined to ruin him in the opinion of all his friends, and make him the contempt of the world.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This put my mother into a great passion; she told me she knew it would be to no purpose to speak to my father upon any such subject; that he knew too well what was my inter-est to give his consent to anything so much for my hurt; and that she wondered how I could think of any such thing after the discourse I had had with my father, and such kind and tender expressions as she knew my father had used to me; and that, in short, if I would ruin myself, there was no help for me; but I might depend I should never have their con-sent to it; that for her part she would not have so much hand in my destruction; and I should never have it to say that my mother was willing when my father was not.
-- I went on the next year with great success in my plantation: I raised fifty great rolls of tobacco on my own ground, more than I had disposed of for necessaries among my neighbours; and these fifty rolls, being each of above a hundredweight, were well cured, and laid by against the return of the fleet from Lisbon: and now increasing in business and wealth, my head began to be full of projects and undertakings be-yond my reach; such as are, indeed, often the ruin of the best heads in business.
-- The tears would run plentifully down my face when I made these reflections; and sometimes I would expostu-late with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miser-able; so without help, abandoned, so entirely depressed, that it could hardly be rational to be thankful for such a life.
-- But as the beasts ruined me before, while my corn was in the blade, so the birds were as likely to ruin me now, when it was in the ear; for, going along by the place to see how it throve, I saw my little crop surrounded with fowls, of I know not how many sorts, who stood, as it were, watching till I should be gone.
-- On the other hand, I argued with myself that this real-ly was the way not to deliver myself, but entirely to ruin and destroy myself; for unless I was sure to kill every one that not only should be on shore at that time, but that should ever come on shore afterwards, if but one of them escaped to tell their country-people what had happened, they would come over again by thousands to revenge the death of their fellows, and I should only bring upon myself a certain de-struction, which, at present, I had no manner of occasion for.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was very well known that no affection was ever supposed to exist between the children of any man by different marriages; and why was he to ruin himself, and their poor little Harry, by giving away all his money to his half sisters?
-- I could rather believe every creature of my acquaintance leagued together to ruin me in his opinion, than believe his nature capable of such cruelty.
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