You can think of it as the look of a place after a storm or a bomb has passed through: , wiped out, nothing left standing. Everything the word covers keeps something of that force — a power that arrives and levels whatever it meets.
颱風或炸彈掃過之後的那片景象——房子塌了、樹倒了、田毀了，站著的東西全被抹平。devastating 講的一直是「有一股力量壓過來，把原本好好的東西夷平」。後面幾個意思都還帶著這個畫面，只是被夷平的東西從房子換成了人的心情、對手的防線，甚至換成別人看到你時心裡那一下被擊中的感覺。
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原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
devastatingadj
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Causing devastation.
- Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.
- “The whole world has a stake in maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. The security of commercial shipping lanes and global supply chains depends on it. And so does freedom of navigation worldwide. Make no mistake: conflict in the Taiwan Strait would be devastating.”
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。