the ravages

n [pl] ~s of sth destructive effect of sth; damage done by sth 某事物的破坏力或造成的破坏: the ravages of deforestation on the hills 滥伐山林的恶果 * (fig 比喻) The ravages of time had spoilt her looks. 岁月摧残了她的容貌.

the open sea, the open season, the Open University, the oppressed, the other day, the outdoors, the Peak District, the Philippines, the Pilgrim Fathers (also the Pilgrims), the Pleistocene, the Pliocene, the poor, the positive, the press, the Press Association (abbr 缩写 PA), the priesthood, the public, the Queen's English, the rag trade, the rank and file, the Redeemer, the Revised Standard Version, the Revised Version, the rich, the Right, the rising generation, the roadway, the roll call, the Roman alphabet, the sack, the safe period, the same, the same as, the sandman, the second coming, the Security Council, the seventh day, the small hours, the solar system, the solar year,