The abbey was in ruins.

这座修道院成了一片废墟。

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The scandal left his reputation in ruins.

这件丑闻使他身败名裂。

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Its heavily subsidized economy is in ruins.

它的严重依赖于资助的经济已崩溃了。

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But the economy was in ruins, falling faster with each passing day of the crisis that grew into the Great Depression.

VOA: special.2011.03.10

Archaeologists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were stunned to find the ruins and the records of remarkable peoples and cultures--massive, complex empires in some cases, but some of which had completely disappeared from human memory.

十九和二十世纪的考古学家们,震惊地发现了,古代伟大名族和文化的遗迹，有些还是大规模，复杂的帝国遗迹,但也有一些就完全从人类记忆中消失了。

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It was not surprising that the North showed little sympathy when the fighting stopped and the South lay in ruins.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

With Somalia in ruins the lure of piracy is unlikely to diminish anytime soon.

BBC: Somali pirate patrol: Day five

Because it was only two miles wide, by war's end it was largely in ruins.

ECONOMIST: Brcko

The Texas coast bore the bulk of Ike's power, and areas lay in ruins Tuesday.

CNN: Houston food bank 'overwhelmed,' director says