Eventually they hope to create and release moths that would cause any wild ones they mated with to produce dud eggs, devastating the population

他们想通过培养和释放改良后的蛾子,使得与之交配的任何野生蛾子都产出无效卵,以此来逐渐地消灭这个种群。

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donna had known this friend, Mary, and her brother nearly her entire life, and the news was devastating

唐娜和这位朋友玛丽及其弟弟有着多年的交情,可以算是一辈子的朋友,这一消息令唐娜悲痛万分。

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I worked with the fear of desperation, burdened with mental and spiritual conflicts that were more devastating than pain or hunger.

我战战兢兢地拼命工作,心理上担负着一种比饥饿或痛苦还要可怕的矛盾。

属类：综合句库-英汉翻译-

As the material loses its grip and begins to move down the slope it gathers speed and sweeps up more material with devastating results

物体松动后从山坡往下移动时速度越来越快,顺势也带下更多的东西,从而造成极大的破坏。

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Characteristics of Seismic Activity before the Devastating Earthquake with M(subscript W)9.0 Off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra

印度尼西亚苏门答腊9.0级地震前地震活动图像异常特征研究

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The English ships that were deliberately set on fire sailed rapidly into the Spanish Armada with devastating effects

英国船舰故意纵火并迅速冲向西班牙的无敌舰队,对敌造成毁灭性后果。

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Epidural Empyema: A Devastating Complication of Craniofacial Surgery a Case Report

硬脑膜上脓疡外科手术致命性的并发症病例报告

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The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

有好丈夫的妻子的不幸,比有坏丈夫的妻子的不幸,更加无可救药。

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During the SARS outbreak, the lack of hygiene in poor countries had devastating consequences to all people of the world.

在SARS爆发期间,贫困国家医疗设施的缺乏已经给全世界人民带来严重的影响。

属类：人文学科-经济伦理学-伦理修炼

When Soviet tanks tried to break into the Panjshir, government forces launched devastating barrages of mortar; rockets and cannon fire against villages and partisan concentrations

在苏军坦克力图冲进帕尼希尔谷地的同时,政府军的迫击炮、火箭炮和大炮向周围村落和游击队密集点猛烈轰击。

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It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.

这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。

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She had been wasted by a devastating disease. literally wasted

这种破坏性极大的疾病把我母亲的体力消耗尽了,确确实实地耗尽了。

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1: Repeated ructions at the top are harmful for any firm. [...]112: But they have been devastating at HP, which faces brilliant competitors such as Apple in the hardware business and IBM in enterprise software and services. 3: Mr Apotheker is partly to blame for the fact that the firm has been reluctant to follow his leadership. 4: But so, too, is the board, which seems uncertain about what kind of leader HP needs.

1:高层之间反复不断的争吵指责对任何公司来说都是有害的[...]112:。而对于惠普而言，则更为致命。它所面对的竞争对手各个业绩彪炳，比如在硬件产业的竞争者苹果，和软件及服务业的竞争者IBM。3:阿波台克先生被指责的部分原因是他无法驾驭惠普，这确属事实。4:但惠普董事会也应被批判。他们似乎并不能确定惠普需要那种类型的领导。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-惠普 董事会的游戏

1: The two researchers tried their invention out last year and analysed a great many quakes, including one of magnitude 7.8 that happened on October 25th in western Indonesia. 2: The epicentre was 70km from the Mentawai islands, and the quake was felt there only weakly. [...]113: But it still raised a devastating tsunami (see picture above) that killed more than 400 islanders.

1:两位研究者去年对该发明进行了测试，用以分析了许多地震，包括去年10月25日印尼西部发生的里氏7.8级地震。2:震中位于距民大威群岛70km处，岛上只有轻微震感。[...]113:但是，地震随后引发了一次破坏力极强的海啸（见上图），导致400多位岛民死亡。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-地震学与海啸 掀起新浪潮

1: His learning came not only from books but from bars and cafés. 2: He travelled, listened and argued. He had a thesaurus of political jokes, collected over years, at the expense of Baathists, Islamists, nationalists, imperialists, Palestinians, Israelis, everyone. 3: He could be superbly rude to peddlers of cliché and to plausible-sounding simplifiers. [...]114: With a tilt of the head and an ironic smile he could give a friendly tease or a devastating “Come off it.” Students adored him.

1:他的学识不仅来自于书本，也来自于酒吧和咖啡馆。2:通过云游四海，耳听八方，舌战群儒，他有了满腹的政治笑话，其对象包括叙利亚社会党人、伊斯兰教主义者、民族主义者、帝国主义者、巴勒斯坦人、以色列人等几乎所有人。3:对待陈词滥调的兜售者以及似乎言之可信的简化论者，他能表现出一种精彩绝伦的粗鲁态度。[...]114:带着嘲讽的微笑歪一歪脑袋，他可能友好的戏弄他们或者来一句极具杀伤力的“您就歇歇吧”。学生们都很喜欢他。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-中东的解密者 弗瑞德·韩礼德

1: Writing about Bosnia, Mr Knaus deploys heavy artillery in arguments that he has made before. [...]112: Intervention there has been a stunning success, he says, given the state of Bosnia at the end of its devastating war in 1995. 3: Hundreds of thousands of refugees have returned, not a single intervening soldier was killed (after the war), and today's problems are of the conventional political sort, not the kind that herald another war. 4: Not only does Bosnia enjoy free and fair elections, but also it has relatively little crime. 5: Mr Knaus argues that the only missteps came from assumptions held by those like Lord Ashdown, when he was de facto governor of Bosnia, that well-meaning envoys could behave like imperial viceroys, sacking elected yet obstructive leaders at will.

1:谈到波斯尼亚时，Knaus大量引用了他之前发表的观点，火力十足。[...]112:鉴于那场1995年波斯尼亚发生的残酷的战争的结局，干预确实取得了惊人的成功，他说。3:成百上千的难民都回归故土，且没有一个外来士兵死于战后重建工作中。但是今天的问题是常规政治，并非预示着另一场战争的那种。4:不仅波斯尼亚有了公平自由的选举，而且犯罪也相对减少。5:Knaus认为，唯一的错处在于阿什当勋爵等人的错误假设。阿什当勋爵为波西尼亚实际领导人时，满怀善意的使者却能像帝国总督那样，任意将选举出来却碍手碍脚的领导人撤职。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-外国干扰该如何进退

But it still raised a devastating tsunami (see picture above) that killed more than 400 islanders.

但是，地震随后引发了一次破坏力极强的海啸（见上图），导致400多位岛民死亡。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-地震学与海啸 掀起新浪潮

'Just thinking of him being sick, for someone in your family to be that sick, it's just devastating . '

‘只是想想他在生病，想想家里的人会那样病重就足以让人崩溃了。’

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

"It has consequences for us but it would be devastating for Iran, " he said.

“这对我们会有影响，但对伊朗的打击将是毁灭性的，”他说。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

"It was devastating , " she says. "But I flipped a switch in my mind to concentrate on what we thought might turn into a pandemic. "

“这太打击人了，”她说，“不过我斩断了思绪，集中注意力到我们觉得可能发展成流行病的事情上。”

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The plot of Atonement, Ian McEwan's lovely and devastating novel, pivots on the term.

《赎罪》的故事情节，伊恩麦克尤恩美好的和引人注目的小说是依这个词语而定的。

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In December 1988, two years after the U. S. bombing, Libya struck back with its most devastating attack.

1988年12月，美国轰炸利比亚的两年后，利比亚实施了最具毁灭性的报复行动。

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Al-Shabab said it was a "tactical withdrawal" and promised devastating suicide attacks.

阿尔-沙巴布（Al-shabab）称这是一次“战略性撤军”并承诺展开毁灭性的自杀式袭击。

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In a race where every second matters, it was a devastating blow to Armstrong's hopes of winning a record eighth Tour de France.

比赛中可谓分秒必争，这对于想获得第八次环法冠军的阿姆斯特朗来说是个毁灭性的打击。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

This was a defenceless man, an innocent victim. It has had devastating repercussions for his family.

曹中军只是个毫无防备的无辜受害者，这给他的家庭带来了毁灭性的伤害。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

And the huge 9. 3 temblor that spawned the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 occurred on Dec.

产生印度洋海啸的9.3级大地震发生在2004年12月26日。

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After a few moments of silence, she began her devastating story which she had told only one time before.

沉默片刻之后，她开始讲述自己那令人震惊的故事，以前她只告诉过一个人。

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The finding comes from an analysis of the seismic record from the lead-up to a devastating earthquake that hit Turkey in 1999.

此项发现源于对1999年土耳其破坏性大地震发生前的记录的分析。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

The Great Depression had devastating effects in virtually every country, rich and poor.

大萧条事实上对每一个人都带来了毁灭性后果，无论贵贱。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

But imagine being told that you're infertile. For people who planned their life around the idea of parenthood, the news can be devastating .

但是设想一下你被告知患了不孕不育症的情形——对于那些生活计划围绕着养育子女展开的人来说，这样的消息称得上是毁灭性的。

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