我们必须避免类似20世纪80年代那样破坏性的繁荣-萧条周期。

We must avoid the damaging boom-bust cycles which characterized the 1980s.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

那场战争尽显人性中具有破坏性的一面。

The war was a paradigm of the destructive side of human nature.

《牛津词典》

酒能促成暴力的和破坏性的行为。

Alcohol can produce violent, disruptive behaviour.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

It is both quiet and tranquil, at times It also powerful and destructive.

自然有时是宁静的安静的,但也是强大而有破坏性的。

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We should be approaching young people, encouraging them to engage, cross our religious boundaries and engage constructively with the same sort of sense of purpose that al-Qaeda recruits young people with a destructive divisive ideology.

我们应该靠近青年人，鼓励他们参与这项事业，跨越宗教界线,鼓励他们具有建设性地参与其中,带着与基地组织招募拥有破坏性的,分裂的意识形态的青年人时有的目的感。

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