ruin

英 ['ru??n] 美['ru?n]

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復(fù)數(shù):?ruins;第三人稱單數(shù):?ruins;過去式:?ruined;過去分詞:?ruined;現(xiàn)在分詞:?ruining;

ruin 破壞，毀壞

來自拉丁語 ruina,倒塌，毀壞，來自 ruere,倒塌，崩塌，來自 PIE*reue,擊，打，撕開，詞源同 rag,rough.字母 g 脫落，比較 regulate,rule.

ruin: ruin: [14] If something is ruined, etymologically it has simply ‘fallen down’. The word’s ultimate ancestor is Latin ruere ‘fall, crumble’ (source also of English congruent). From it was derived the noun ruīna ‘fall’, which passed into English via Old French ruine.
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ruin (n.): late 14c., "act of giving way and falling down," from Old French ruine "a collapse" (14c.), and directly from Latin ruina "a collapse, a rushing down, a tumbling down" (source also of Spanish ruina, Italian rovina), related to ruere "to rush, fall violently, collapse," from PIE *reue- (2) "to smash, knock down, tear out, dig up" (see rough (adj.)). Meaning "complete destruction of anything" is from 1670s. Ruins "remains of a decayed building or town" is from mid-15c.; the same sense was in the Latin plural noun.
ruin (v.): 1580s (transitive), from ruin (n.). Intransitive sense "fall into ruin" is from c. 1600. Financial sense is attested from 1660. Related: Ruined; ruining.

1. She wasn't going to let her plans go to ruin.: 她不會(huì)讓她的計(jì)劃破產(chǎn)的。

2. "But we might ruin the stove." — "Who cares?": “可我們會(huì)把爐子弄壞的!”——“我才不在乎呢！”