wreck

• n. 破坏；失事；残骸；失去健康的人
• vt. 破坏；使失事；拆毁
• vi. 失事；营救失事船只

来自PIE*wreg,推，驱动，践踏，来自PIE*wer的扩大形式，弯，转，扭曲，词源同urgent,wreak。引申义扭曲的物体，主要用于指船的残骸，失事的船只等。

1. something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation;

"the house was a wreck when they bought it"

"thanks to that quack I am a human wreck"

2. an accident that destroys a ship at sea

3. a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles);

"they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"

4. a ship that has been destroyed at sea

wreck

wreck: [13] Wreck goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *wreg-, a variant of which may be responsible for English urge. Its Germanic descendant *wrek- formed the basis of a verb *wrekan ‘drive’. The native English descendant of this is wreak [OE], which originally meant ‘drive out’, and developed its modern meaning via ‘give vent to anger or other violent emotions’. Wreck itself was acquired via Old Norse *wrek and Anglo-Norman wrec, and etymologically it denotes a ship that has been ‘driven’ on to the shore.

A variant of the same base, *wrak-, lies behind English wretch [OE] (etymologically someone ‘driven’ out, an ‘exile’) and also possibly French garçon ‘boy’.
=> urge, wreak, wretch

wreck (n.)

early 13c., "goods cast ashore after a shipwreck, flotsam," from Anglo-French wrec, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse *wrek "wreck, flotsam" (cognates: Norwegian, Icelandic rek), related to reka "to drive, push," from Proto-Germanic *wrekan (see wreak (v.)). The meaning "a shipwreck" is first recorded mid-15c.; that of "a wrecked ship" is by c. 1500. General sense of "remains of anything that has been ruined" is recorded from 1713; applied by 1795 to dissipated persons. Compare wrack (v.).

wreck (v.)

"to destroy, ruin," c. 1500, from wreck (n.). Earlier (12c.) it meant "drive out or away, remove;" also "take vengeance." Intransitive sense from 1670s. Related: Wrecked; wrecking.

break, destroy, ruin, wreck, damage, spoil

这些动词均有"破坏，损坏"之意。

break： 普通用词，指某物因被打破或撕破而受到破坏，可指有形或无形的破坏。

destroy： 多指彻底地、毁灭性地破坏，含导致无用，不能或很难再修复的意味。

ruin： 多指因外部原因而受到严重破坏或毁灭，侧重破坏的彻底性，也可用于引申意义。

wreck： 侧重指船只、车辆、房屋等受到严重破坏或完全毁坏，也可指计划、健康受到损害。

damage： 多指对无生命物体的损害，造成降低价值、破坏功能等后果。

spoil： 强调不仅会削弱力量、精力或价值，而且会导致不可避免的毁灭。

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Two passengers are still trapped in the wreck.

有两名乘客仍被困在失事的车辆里。

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Physically, I was a total wreck.

从身体上说，我完全是一个废人。

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The interview reduced him to a nervous wreck .

这次面试使得他的精神高度紧张。

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The house was a wreck when we bought it.

我们买下这座房子时，它破烂不堪。

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(figurative)They still hoped to salvage something from the wreck of their marriage.

他们仍然希望从他们破碎的婚姻中挽回点什么。

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a car/train wreck

汽车 / 火车失事

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The building had been wrecked by the explosion.

那座楼房被炸毁了。

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The road was littered with wrecked cars.

公路上到处都弃置着被撞坏的汽车。

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The weather wrecked all our plans.

天气把我们的计划全都毁了。

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A serious injury nearly wrecked his career.

一次重伤差点儿葬送了他的前程。

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The ship was wrecked off the coast of France.

那艘船在法国的沿岸失事。

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He wrecked the garden...

他毁掉了花园。

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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。

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The ship was wrecked by an explosion.

这艘船被炸毁了。

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...a wrecked cargo ship.

失事的货船

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...the wreck of a sailing ship...

帆船的残骸

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The car was a total wreck...

这辆车完全报废了。

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He was killed in a car wreck.

他在一场车祸中丧生。

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...the little girl that survived that plane wreck...

在空难中幸存的小女孩

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You look a wreck...

你看起来身体很糟糕。

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It was embarrassing and sad to see this man reduced to a mumbling wreck.

看见这个人变得口齿不清、弱不禁风，真是让人既难堪又悲哀。

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Budget cuts mean the wreck of all our plans.

预算的削减意味着我们所有计划的破产.

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The smouldering wreck fumed for days.

燃烧的残骸冒了好几天的烟.

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