destroy和damage的区别在于:
damage 一般用于 什么什么东西或物品,损坏了, 比如说,my car was damaged.
destroy 有破坏,毁灭的意思, 意思要比damage强很多,不是很常用, 比较极端的一个词~
例如:
1,The earthquake destroyed almost the entire city.
那次地震几乎毁灭了整个城市。
2,The forest was destroyed by fire.
森林被火烧毁了。
3,The storm damaged several houses in the village.
暴风雨损坏了这个村子的几间房子。
4,The car was only slightly damaged in the accident.
这辆车在事故中只受到轻微的损坏。
destroy也可用于损坏抽象的东西,比如名誉、计划、努力、契约等。
例如:
All his hopes were destroyed.
他的全部希望破灭了。
That will destroy the reputation of our products.
那要毁了我们产品的声誉。
1.destroy 强调以具有摧毁或杀伤性的力量把某物彻底毁掉。
Why, you may wonder,should spiders be our friends? Because they destroy so many insects,…
你也许会觉得奇异,蜘蛛怎么竟是我们的朋友?因为它们毁灭那么多的昆虫。
As long ago as the fourteenth century,an Englishman,Sir John Hawkood, made the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.
早在14世纪,一位名叫约翰·霍克伍德爵士的英国人,就有过非凡的发现:人们宁肯支付大笔金钱也不肯把自己毕生的事业让暴徒毁掉。
2.damage是破坏,常常是局部的,或可以修好的。
The storm did a lot of damage to the crops.
暴风雨使庄稼受到了很大损失。
destroy指的是毁灭性的破坏。
damage指的是有一定的损失。What you said damaged my hopes。 是指在一定程度上影响到我的希望,而不是让我的希望破灭。
damage 表示“损害”、“损坏”,通常是指部分性的损坏,往往暗示损坏后价值、效率、功能等会降低,有时用于比喻用法中。如:
The bridge was badly damaged by the flood. 桥被洪水损坏得很严重。
Smoking will damage your health. 抽烟会损害你的健康。
destroy 表示“毁坏”, 通常指彻底的毁掉或毁灭, 往往暗示无法或很难修复,有时用于比喻用法中。如:
The fire destroyed the building. 大火毁了大楼。
damage还有修复的可能,destroy完全摧毁了