词汇精选：wreck的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

n.

残骸 [C]

例句：

All around were the wrecks of previous crashes.

四周全是以前撞毁的汽车的残骸。

例句：

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。

破坏，毁灭；失事，交通事故 [C]

例句：

The hurricane caused many wrecks.

飓风造成了许多船难。

例句：

He was killed in a car wreck.

他在一场车祸中丧生。

失去健康的人 [C]

例句：

My father was a complete wreck after the illness.

我父亲病后身体完全垮了。

例句：

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。

v.

破坏，毁坏，拆毁，拆除 [T]

例句：

He wrecked the garden.

他毁掉了花园。

例句：

His life has been wrecked by the tragedy.

他的生活被这场灾难毁掉了。

（使）失事，遇难 [I,T]

例句：

The ship was wrecked in a storm.

这条船在一次风暴中失事了。

例句：

They were wrecked on the reef.

他们因船触礁而遭遇海难。

二、词义辨析：

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。

三、参考例句：

The smouldering wreck fumed for days.

燃烧的残骸冒了好几天的烟.

At what depth does the wreck lie?

沉船位置的深度是多少？

A large herd could wreck a train.

庞大的兽群将会使火车失事。

The wreck of that plane has not been found.

那架飞机的残骸还没找到。

Salvage of the wreck was made difficult by bad weather.

船遇难后因天气恶劣救援工作十分困难。

The pilot struggled out of the wreck almost uninjured.

飞行员艰难地从失事的飞机中爬出来，几乎没有受伤。

Idiot oil can wreck you as much as smack does.

烈酒像海洛因一样会把你毁了。

They found the wreck of an old ship.

他们找到了一条旧船的残骸。

He went berserk and began to wreck the room.

他怒极而狂暴，开始捣毁家具。

My father was a complete wreck after the illness.

我父亲病后身体完全垮了。