In fact,many Whigs themselves hoped their party had been destroyed.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

All of Milton's expectations that England might actually be transformed, and they were glorious expectations, into something like a Puritan utopia or even a Puritan paradise -- all of that had been destroyed.

弥尔顿壮丽的期望，将英格兰转变成一个，清教徒乌托邦，甚至是清教徒天堂的期望,统统破灭了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The famous beautiful,fabulous, fabulous Monastery Church of Cluny is up near Macon, right here,had been destroyed and they tried to-- they restored a couple of the remaining towers.

雄壮美丽的著名教堂,克鲁尼修道院在马贡附近,就在这里,它被毁坏了,人们试着,人们保存了一部分残余的楼塔

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Many of its farms had been destroyed.

VOA: special.2009.10.22