| 1. | An earthquake left the whole town in ruins .
那次地震过后，全城到处是颓垣断壁。 |
| 2. | The city is now in ruins .
那个城市现在成了一片废墟。 |
| 3. | I cannot conceive of such a thing as genoa in ruins .
我想象不出热那亚变成废墟的事情。 |
| 4. | A city is laid in ruins .
全城化为废墟。 |
| 5. | They saw by the light of the moon that part of the city lay in ruins .
借着月色，他们可以隐约看到城市破烂的一角。 |
| 6. | She sat, cool and unmoved, with her lifework falling in ruins about her .
她冷静，镇定地坐在那里，眼见她毕生的心血正在付诸东流。 |
| 7. | When young henry came out of the navy to join his grandfather's company, it was in ruins .
当年轻的亨利从海军回来，加入他祖父的那个公司时，那公司已是一个烂摊子。 |
| 8. | Was some damn newspaper, concerned only with printing a sensational one-day story, about to lay in ruins all his work and dreams ?
难道这一家倒运的报纸，只关心这一天刊登一条耸人听闻的消息，于是他的工作和梦想将会全部毁于一旦？ |
| 9. | The whole city lay in ruins after the earthquake
地震之后整个城市成了一片废墟。 |
| 10. | Presumption begins in ignorance and ends in ruin
自以为是由无知开始,以毁灭告终 |
