wrecking

1. VERB 毁掉;毁坏;损坏
   To wreck something means to completely destroy or ruin it.
   1. He wrecked the garden...
      他毁掉了花园。
   2. A coalition could have defeated the government and wrecked the treaty...
      联盟本来可以击败政府并毁掉该条约的。
   3. His life has been wrecked by the tragedy.
      他的生活被这场灾难毁掉了。
   4. ...missed promotions, lost jobs, wrecked marriages.
      错过的提升机会，失去的工作，破裂的婚姻
2. VERB 使(船舶)失事；使遇难
   If a ship is wrecked, it is damaged so much that it sinks or can no longer sail.
   1. The ship was wrecked by an explosion.
      这艘船被炸毁了。
   2. ...a wrecked cargo ship.
      失事的货船
3. N-COUNT 失事的船只(或汽车、飞机);损毁的建筑
   A wreck is something such as a ship, car, plane, or building which has been destroyed, usually in an accident.
   1. ...the wreck of a sailing ship...
      帆船的残骸
   2. The car was a total wreck...
      这辆车完全报废了。
   3. We thought of buying the house as a wreck, doing it up, then selling it.
      我们想过把这栋房子当作废弃建筑买下来，修缮一下，然后再卖掉。
4. N-COUNT 车祸；交通事故
   A wreck is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
   1. He was killed in a car wreck.
      他在一场车祸中丧生。
   2. ...the little girl that survived that plane wreck...
      在空难中幸存的小女孩
   3. What would he tell his parents if he had a wreck?
      如果他出了事故，他怎么向他的父母交代？

in BRIT, usually use 英国英语通常用 crash


5. See also: You look a wreck... It was embarrassing and sad to see this man reduced to a mumbling wreck. nervous wreck

1. The can exploded, wrecking the kitchen and bathroom and blowing out windows
   罐子爆炸了，不但炸毁了厨房和浴室，还把窗户炸飞了。
2. I do not hear a biological clock ticking, only the nerve wrecking ticks of bombs yet to explode.
   我听不见生物钟的滴答作响，只听到即将爆炸的***那令人神经崩溃的走秒声。
3. You're wrecking my botany experiment!
   你在破坏我的植物学实验！
4. The film went from saving it from the wrecking ball to becoming a tourism icon.
   这部电影救了它，把它从一片破旧楼房变成了旅游胜地。
5. North Korea's retrograde moves are wrecking its economy and propagating discontent among the masses.
   朝鲜的倒退行径让经济遭受严重打击，不满情绪在公众间蔓延。
6. Combined, they are an unholy alliance capable of wrecking global trade negotiations.
   这两类人合起来，形成了一个能够毁掉全球贸易谈判的邪恶联盟。
7. Never this! That this could happen to us all, this wrecking of old ways, this bloody slaughter and hate!
   我从来也没有想到过生活会是这样：降临在我们所有人身上的一切，旧日生活的分崩离析，血腥的杀戮，还有仇恨。
8. Fighting raged in Old Gagra, wrecking the city's storied resorts.
   激烈的战斗在旧加格拉进行，破坏了这座城市传奇的度假名胜。
9. Such attitudes were behind the wrecking of the Doha round of trade talks this week.
   这种态度就是破坏本周多哈回合贸易谈判的潜在原因。
10. Critics of the president accuse him of wrecking the economy through the seizure of thousands of white-owned commercial farms.
    穆加贝总统的批评者指责他通过没收数以千计的白人拥有的商业农场致使经济受到严重损害。
11. As I began to walk up the driveway to my soon to be new home, I heard a loud crash as the wrecking ball struck my old house again, and a small smile broke across my face.
    当我开始沿着车道往前走，走向未来的新房所在地时，我听到一声巨响，那个大铁球再一次砸向我的老房子。一丝微笑掠过了我的脸庞。
12. My lovely village, slated for the Chinese wrecking ball: workers with a hammer and crowbar.
    我可爱的乡村，晾着打鱼的浮球，工人用铁锤和铁锹工作&可能翻译有误。
13. But Mars is a formidable foe with a track record of wrecking pioneering space missions.
    但是火星是一个难以战胜的敌人，以前已经有多次探测火星任务失败的记录。
14. The wrecking of the world trade talks was senseless and short-sighted
    破坏世界贸易谈判是不明智和短视的行为
15. Big Red: What are you doing? You're wrecking everything I built!
    大红：你在做什么？你破坏了所有我建设的！
16. Walter, the astronaut guy is wrecking dad's couch.
    沃尔特，那个宇航员在毁掉爸爸的沙发。
17. After almost wrecking my car last week-end he had the crust to ask to borrow it again.
    上周末几乎撞坏了我的车，他还有脸皮要求再借他。
18. The act or process of wrecking or destroying, especially destruction by explosives.
    摧毁破坏或摧毁的行为或过程，特别是指通过爆破进行的破坏活动。
19. A wrecking car of local traffic police arrived later tried to pull out the truck through steel wire rope.
    交警部门的救援车停在货车后面，两辆车由两条钢丝绳连在一起。
20. Let go, you're wrecking my flight pattern.
    放手，你坏了我的飞行模式。
21. Many think that the EPA is a left-wing wrecking operation and Mr Obama's hitherto willingness to approve its edicts characteristic of his job-killing attachment to unnecessary regulation.
    许多人认为环保局是在进行一次左翼破坏性的活动，而奥巴马先生迄今为止的愿望是批准其法令，而这一不必要规定的法令是以减少工作机会的附件为特点的。
22. Hey, cal, I'm sorry about wrecking you today.
    嘿，卡，对不起，今天把你撞了。
23. The boiler blew up, wrecking the whole house.
    锅炉爆炸，炸毁了整座房子。
24. You're not wrecking his life!
    你不是想让他送命吧！
25. As the race went on, it seemed that Hull's personal problems were wrecking his chances and that Hynes had nothing particularly special to offer to voters.
    随着竞选的进行，看来似乎赫尔的个人问题毁坏了他的机会，而海恩斯没有什么特别的东西提供给选民们。
26. When I got home late after wrecking my father's new car, there was the very devil to pay.
    当我毁了我父亲的新汽车而很晚才回家时，那可真是倒了大霉。
27. You are not only wrecking your own communities, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.
    你们所破坏的也不仅仅是自己的社区，你们也是在破坏自己的生活。
28. The teenager was drawn and quartered for wrecking the family's only car. He will want to avoid both severe punishment and a ruined reputation.
    少年因损坏了家中唯一的汽车而遭到严厉的惩罚他不想接受严厉的惩罚，或是使自己的声誉遭到破坏。
29. A wrecking crew is demolishing the old building.
    拆除队正在拆除这幢老建筑物。
30. Father was mad at me for wrecking the car.
    父亲因我毁坏汽车而对我愤怒。

noun

1. destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

   Synonym:    laying wasteruinruiningruination

2. the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled

   Synonym:    razing