wreaking

英 [ˈriːkɪŋ]

美 [ˈriːkɪŋ]

v.  造成(巨大的破坏或伤害)
wreak的现在分词

柯林斯词典

The form wrought can also be used as the past participle. 过去分词亦可使用wrought。


• VERB 造成(混乱或破坏)
  Something or someone thatwreakshavoc or destruction causes a great amount of disorder or damage.
  1. Violent storms wreaked havoc on the French Riviera, leaving three people dead and dozens injured...
     猛烈的暴风雨给法国里维埃拉地区造成了极大的破坏，致使三人死亡，数十人受伤。
  2. The mountains are studded with dams, any one of which could wreak destruction in the valley below.
     山区到处都是大坝，其中任何一个都可能给下面的山谷带来灭顶之灾。
  3. ...the devastation wrought by a decade of fighting.
     十年战事造成的严重破坏
• VERB 实施(报复)
  If youwreakrevenge or vengeance on someone, you do something that will harm them very much to punish them for the harm they have done to you.
  1. He threatened to wreak vengeance on the men who toppled him a year ago.
     他威胁要对一年前扳倒他的人进行报复。
• See also:wrought

双语例句

• The rejection of US dollar deposits has become so widespread that smaller local banks in Hong Kong are being forced to go into the wholesale market to procure dollars, wreaking havoc with their finances.
  排斥美元存款的现象已经变得非常普遍，以致香港本土的一些小银行正被迫从批发市场买进美元，这给他们的财务状况带来了灾难。
• Despite wreaking havoc in the Northeast states and devastating hundreds of businesses, Hurricane Sandy's impact on jobs appears to have been minimal.
  虽然飓风Sandy对美国东北部的一些州带来了严重破坏，并对数以百计的商店造成了毁灭性打击，但是其对就业的影响看起来只是微乎其微。
• With all the rosy news of the past year and the overall gains, it is easy to lose sight of the volatility that has been wreaking havoc on these fortunes on a daily basis for months.
  面对以上令人乐观的消息，我们很容易忽略在过去一年中的财富波动，然而这些日以继月的动荡却可能带给富豪难以估量的损失。
• Yet the physical changes that go with affluence destroy the habitats of migratory shorebirds and seabirds, wreaking havoc on their numbers along the crucial East Asian-Australasian flyway.
  然而经济发展带来的环境恶化破坏了migratoryshorebirdsandseabirds的生存环境，在东亚-澳洲的主要迁徙路线上，这些鸟类数量锐减。这句话没有并列关系。
• The dead man disposed of, and the crowd being under the necessity of providing some other entertainment for itself, another brighter genius conceived the humour of impeaching casual passersby, as Old Bailey spies, and wreaking vengeance on them.
  死人处理完毕，人群又急于另谋消遣。另一个更聪明的天才想出了个节目：拿偶然路过的人当作老贝勒的密探进行控拆，向他们报复。
• It says that the virus is wreaking social and economic havoc on the worst affected nations.
  报告说，在感染最严重的国家，艾滋病病毒正在造成一场社会和经济大灾难。
• In one Beijing theater, moviegoers hoping to see the tale of a 19th-century former slave wreaking bloody vengeance across the American South saw only moments of the film before the lights came back on.
  在北京的一家影院，影迷原本希望看到一名获得自由的奴隶在美国南方展开血腥报复的故事，结果才看了几个镜头影院的灯就亮了。
• As the recycled cabin air dries the mucus in our nasal passages, our sense of smell diminishes, wreaking havoc with our olfactory appreciation.
  由于机舱内的循环空气让我们鼻道中的黏液变干，我们的嗅觉会随之变弱，对气味的辨识会因此遭到破坏。
• The cost of preserving highly leveraged financial behemoths still has the potential to bankrupt governments and debauch their currencies, wreaking yet more damage to their economies.
  保留高杠杆率的金融巨擘，仍有可能让政府破产，本币贬值，对本国经济造成更大的破坏。
• My eyes kept returning to a blue kite that had been wreaking havoc for the last hour.
  我的眼光转向一只蓝风筝，在过去那个钟头里面，它大开杀戒。