| 正面 | 6504.devastate 英 ['devəsteɪt]美 ['dɛvəstet]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. devastate 毁灭＝de + waste + ate.vt. 毁灭；毁坏 例句： 1. This September I was invited to devastate the moors of a friend in the north.这年九月我被北方一个朋友邀请去遨游他的原野. devastate 摧毁de-, 强调，整个的。vast, 广阔的。即整个摧毁。 devastatedevastate: [17] Etymologically as well as semantically, devastate is related to ‘lay waste’. It comes from the past participle of Latin dēvāstāre, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and vāstāre ‘lay waste’. This was a derivative of vāstus ‘waste’, source of English waste.=> vast, wastedevastate (v.)1630s, perhaps a back-formation from devastation. Apparently not common until 19c.; earlier verb form devast is attested from 1530s, from Middle French devaster. Related: devastated; devastating." |