Land development and agriculture are just two uses of natural resources that change and destroy environments that birds need.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Plato's excessive emphasis on unity would seem to destroy the natural diversity of human beings that make up a city.

柏拉图过度地强调和谐,似乎会摧毁,构成城市的自然人性差异。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I will destroy, I will wreck their ways, That quiet may be restored. Let us have rest."

我要毁灭，要彻底破坏他们的行为，那样便可以重得安宁，我们就能安歇了“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But that does not include costs like the tons of flowers that growers in Kenya and Israel had to destroy.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

Then, there are antagonists that slow down the amount of neurotransmitters, either because they destroy neurotransmitters or they make it hard to create more.

另一种是抑制剂,抑制剂会抑制神经递质的释放量,有可能是通过破坏神经递质而实现,也可能是通过抑制神经递质的生成而实现

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

NASA was worried that the extra water could destroy the power supply needed for the spacecraft's return to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Nothing that happens here on Earth can change or alter or destroy the number three.

在地球上发生的任何事都不能,改变或者消灭数字"三"

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She soon found evidence that Standard Oil had been using unfair and illegal methods to destroy other oil companies.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

.. "One may destroy a man who makes war upon him ... for the same reason that he may kill a wolf or a lion.

一人可以摧毁向他挑起战争的人。,正如他可以杀死一匹狼或一头狮子。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Ida Tarbell charged that Standard Oil was using illegal methods to hurt or destroy smaller oil companies.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

When that happened it would destroy the economy.

当这种现象发生时，将会摧毁经济。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But people of all opinions feared that the president was trying to destroy the careful system of checks and balances in the federal government.

VOA: special.2011.04.21

The message of the flood story also seems to be that when humans destroy the moral basis of society, when they are violent or cruel or unkind, they endanger the very existence of that society.

而洪水所表达的信息是,当人类毁掉了社会的道德根基，当人类变得暴力，残忍，这都会危及到人类社会的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They include nets,giant collecting arms and powerful laser beams that would move or destroy space junk.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

What are the kinds of things that you can change and destroy?

哪些东西,你能改变并摧毁？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Many Whigs in the House of Representatives opposed the plan, because they feared that the political dispute over slavery would destroy the Supreme Court.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

So the kinds of things that can be destroyed or the things would part and those sorts of things that change even it do not destroy.

但是能毁灭的东西,是能四分五裂的东西,即使不能破坏,但可以改变。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And,in leading that war, he took the first steps that would destroy the institution of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

But for all that, you can destroy my house without destroying me.

即便如此,你可以摧毁我的房屋但无法摧毁我本人

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I thought that what in the end would destroy him would be the mathematics examination.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

But for all that you can destroy harmony.

虽然如此你可以毁掉和声。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I thought that what is the end would destroy him would be the mathematics examination.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Such men have no other rule, but that of force and violence," listen to this, "So may be treated as beasts of prey those dangerous and noxious creatures that will be sure to destroy to you " if you fall into their power", so kill them first.

这种人除强力和暴力的法则之外，没有其他法则“,注意这里，“因此可以被当作猛兽，危险和有害的动物看待,要落在它们的爪牙之内,就一定会遭到毁灭，所以先下手为强。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Opponents of the Sherman Anti-Trust Bill said its purpose was not to destroy trusts, but to make the public believe that trusts would be destroyed.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

He ordered them to destroy everything that might be of use to the enemy.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

She was told by one man that Rockefeller would try to destroy McClure's Magazine.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

He warned that Roosevelt and the Democrats would destroy the American system.

VOA: special.2011.03.10

And confederate guns could destroy any ship that tried to enter.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Rheumatoid arthritis is a painful disease that can destroy joints.

VOA: special.2010.05.19

"To me it's too artificial and it's also the same story that you've seen before with indigenous groups and the white colonial forces coming to destroy them or something like that."

VOA: special.2010.03.01