The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community (EEC)and the European Atomic Energy Community (euratom)in 1957 and, in effect, marked the ’relaunching of Europe’ after the devastation of World War II

1957年。罗马条约建立的欧洲经济共同体和欧洲原子能联营，这实际上标志着二战劫难后“欧洲重振”的开始。

Whether a trenchcoat,balmacaan or windbreaker,it is a coverup that makes sense(bNew York Times)Politicians love photo opportunities featuring helicopters,devastation and nifty windbreakers(bSan Francisco Chronicle)

不管是战壕雨衣、短大衣还是风衣，至少是个管用的遮蔽(b纽约时报)政治家喜欢以直升飞机、毁坏和时髦的防风茄克衫为主要特征的照片(b旧金山记事)

Whether a trenchcoat,balmacaan or windbreaker,it is a coverup that makes sense(New York Times)Politicians love photo opportunities featuring helicopters,devastation and nifty windbreakers(San Francisco Chronicle)

不管是战壕雨衣、短大衣还是风衣，至少是个管用的遮蔽(纽约时报)政治家喜欢以直升飞机、毁坏和时髦的防风茄克衫为主要特征的照片(旧金山记事)

At that point the only imaginable outcome of a nuclear exchange was reciprocal devastation , city for city, Johnny for Ivan

当时，进行核武器交锋的唯一可以想到的结果就是相互毁灭:美苏之间你炸掉我一个城市，我也炸掉你一个城市。

There was devastation on every side.

到处都是破坏的创伤.

We realize the importance of developing legislation that diminishes corruption, which like a cancer, breeds devastation .

腐败就像一个癌细胞,孕育着毁灭。我们意识到完善法规对减少腐败的重要性。

In the old time, while the devastation of forests for arable land helped ease grain shortage, it became a main factor causing ecological deterioration

过去，毁林开荒对解决粮食问题曾经发挥了重要作用，但同时也成为生态恶化的重要原因。

The two strongest powers are the two in the most danger of devastation

两个最强的国家遭受荼毒的危险最大。

unutterable destruction and devastation were wrought last autumn

去年秋天造成了无以言宣的破坏和毁灭。

As a result, the course of human history was frequently altered by epidemics that swept unchecked across continents, claiming more lives and creating more social devastation than wars.

人类社会历史的进程常因各种疫病流行而改变，因为这些流行曾未受任何阻挡而横扫各大洲，与战争相比，它们造成的生命丧失更多、社会毁坏更惨重。

The environmental devastation would be immense if every Chinese person owned a car.

如果每个中国人都拥有一辆汽车,环境污染将会非常严重。

If a forest fire cannot be extinguished,devastation is sure to ensue.

如果森林火灾不能被扑灭，灾害一定会随之发生。

Most of the devastation was in the city’s outskirts, in areas where the poor were densely crowded. The disease spread throughout the country, but from 1667 only sporadic cases appeared until 1679.

受害最惨重的是贫民密集的郊区，疫情迅速扩散到整个国家。但从1667年起到1679年为止，只有少数零星病例。

They dreaded the devastation of their territories

他们害怕自己的国土被摧毁。

It caused devastation by burrowing and by devouring the herbage which might have maintained millions of sheep and cattle

它们在地下打洞，吞食掉本来可以牧放数百万只羊和牲口的牧草，造成了破坏。

I left the hospital alone, in devastation . Unsure of what my future would hold, I shed countless tears.

我独自从医院出来，感到很绝望。不知道我将来的命运如何，我泪如雨下。

We have noted the terrible devastation wrought by the Superfortresses from Saipan

我们已经看到，从塞班岛起飞的超级空中堡垒，已造成极其严重的破坏。

I turn to the situation in February 1944, and the terrific devastation by Bomber Command of German towns

现在谈炎1944年2月的情况，轰炸机兵团骇人听闻地蹂躏德国城镇。

It overran a whole continent. It caused devastation by burrowing and by devouring the herbage which might have maintained millions of sheep and cattle.

于是欧洲兔子遍及整个澳洲大陆。它们掘洞挖穴,滥食牧草,造成草地的严最破坏,使数百万头牛羊无以为生。

In the midst of utter devastation and chaos, a father left his wife safely at home and rushed to the school where his son was supposed to be, only to discover that the building was as flat as a pancake.

在彻底的破坏与混乱之中，有位父亲将他的妻子在家里安顿好后，跑到他儿子就读的学校，而触目所见，却是被夷为平地的校园。

The ship itself-974 feet long, 125 feet wide, worth $16.8 million-was huge, but the devastation its 35 million gallons of crude oil could wreak on Britain’s seacoast was staggering

这条船本身长974英尺，宽125英尺，价值1680万美元，十分庞大，可是从油轮中喷涌出来的3500万加仑原油对英国海岸造成的毁坏将是触目惊心的。

Central Europe recovered steadily from the devastation of the Thirty Years War

中欧已从三十年战争的废墟中稳步地恢复过来了。

for the devastation caused in 2013 by an outbreak of rhinovirus C at Kibale, which killed 9% of one group of chimps.

“思想上有所准备，但情感上没有准备”，这场病毒爆发导致某群中9%的黑猩猩死亡。

||1:Yet Indonesians barely knew what they faced.||2:A poll of his many Twitter followers revealed that 86% had never had disaster training.||3:So first of all he provided clarity, turning data from monitors on the ground into clear statements to the press.||4:There were plenty of those, and 500 press releases in 2018 alone.||5:Then he did some educating.||6:He filled the BNPB building with dioramas, mud-crusted relics from landslides, notices tipped sideways and backdrops of devastation into which visitors could insert themselves, as rescuers, for selfies.

||1:但是印度尼西亚人几乎不知道他们面临的是什么。||2:一项针对他的推特粉丝的调查显示，86%的人从未接受过灾难训练。||3:因此，首先，他提供了清晰的信息，将地面监视器的数据转化为对媒体的清晰陈述。||4:有很多这样的发言，只在2018年就有500次媒体发言。||5:然后他做了一些有教育意义的事情。||6:他在印尼国家减灾署大楼里放满了立体模型，这些模型是山体滑坡留下的泥质外壳、倾斜的告示和废墟背景，游客可以作为救援人员进入其中自拍。

||Sports Direct’s success is all the more remarkable in view of the devastation that has occurred elsewhere in British retailing.|| Around 14% of retail lots are estimated to be vacant, according to the Local Data Company, a research firm. Yet Sports Direct has thrived, not least by taking the measure of the times with relentless discounting. Signs boasting “mega-deals” hang throughout its shops, which often resemble jumble sales. Lillywhites, a retailer acquired by Sports Direct in 2002, used to be a posh London department store stocked with the finest sporting goods. “Now it is ‘pile it high, sell it cheap’,” sniffs Matthew Hopkinson, an analyst.

||1:相较于英国其他零售业所出现的不景气，Sports Direct的成功便更为突出。||||2:根据一个调查公司——地方数据公司，近14％的零售地段是空滞的。||3:然而Sports Direct的成绩不断看涨，尤其是采取了偶尔打超低折扣的措施后。||4:标志有“大甩卖”这种类似义卖活动的横幅经常挂在其商店中。||5:一个零售店Lillywhites在2002年被Sports Direct合并，这个曾用来囤积豪华伦敦百货商店的优质运动商品。||6:“现在它‘堆得高，卖的贱’，”分析师Matthew Hopkinson颇有怨词道。

But it is surely one of them. Besides the devastation and the death toll, one way to assess its potency is to compare it with Katrina, the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005.

不过可以肯定，这是史上最强风暴之一。除了统计摧毁的建筑和死亡的人数，评估该风暴威力的另一个办法，是将它和2005年摧毁新奥良的卡特里娜飓风作比较。

Given this devastation , it is surprising susceptible plants continue to exist; natural selection should have produced resistance years ago.

考虑到病毒的危害，至今还存在易感染植物着实让人惊奇——自然选择应该早就帮助它们形成了病毒抵抗力。

“The next day it was devastation . Every tree down, every stoplight down. I walked out onto campus and found a dead owl, ” he said.

“第二天，飓风破坏性极大。每棵树都倒了下来，每个红绿灯都躺在地上。我走出了寝室就进了校园，就发现一只猫头鹰死了，”他说。

“America is on the threshold of potential economic devastation , ” he says. “The day of infamy is close. ”

“美国处于潜在的经济毁灭的开端”，“声名狼藉的日子随之而来”。

Some advocates for the 2012 catastrophe say that what will actually cause the devastation is an alignment of planets.

2012灾难说的支持者们认为导致毁灭的真正原因是一次众星连珠。

forest devastation

n.森林破坏,森林荒废,森林荒废,森林破坏

forest-devastation

森林荒废,森林破坏

general devastation

全面毁坏

prohibition of devastation

禁止荒废