More than four thousand homes were destroyed when a nearby flood wall broke.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

One of the things that was interesting, when we were talking about the Sooka, was this idea that the Sooka should be weak enough and it would be destroyed if a big storm comes through.

有一件很有意思的事情，我们当时谈到了苏卡这个地方，意识到它其实很脆弱,很可能被即将到来的风暴摧毁。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This is page 198 in the Hughes: "I am singing the starry sky and the hosts that sang high in air, and the gods that were suddenly destroyed in their own shrines."

看到休斯版本198页：我歌唱满天繁星,主人们都在高空歌唱，神灵们都被突然毁于自己的圣坛里“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Farms were burned. Crops were destroyed.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

All of those who were conquered are put to the ban or the herem that's the sacred devotion of objects and persons to God, which entailed killing them, so they were utterly destroyed.

那些被虏获的人都被禁止,那是为上帝敬献的物品或者人，也就意味着杀了他们，因此他们完全被毁灭。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Hospitals,a hotel and school facilities were among the buildings that were destroyed Wednesday in Padang, which has a population of about 900,000.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Witnesses said a hospital in the capital collapsed, a luxury hotel in Petionville had sustained major damage and many other buildings were destroyed.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

One of the injured also died in the hospital. A downtown post office and market were destroyed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

Vast areas of farmland and forest were destroyed in Australia's worst ever wildfire disaster.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

The company says two turbines were destroyed and the facility has been shut down.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Lincoln admitted that, even if the dispute could be settled peacefully, there were those who wanted to see the Union destroyed.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

Their economy was destroyed. In many areas, there was little food and the people were hungry.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

River boats had been destroyed. And roads and bridges were in terrible condition.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Some -- like Atlanta were completely destroyed by Union forces.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

"You find quite a lot of stories where Somali fishermen were harassed patrollers, their nets destroyed, their equipment destroyed, their boats rammed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

(SAYING) A Fallujah resident said one of the houses destroyed belonged to a policeman killed two years ago he says victims were family members.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

The world was literally destroyed by a corporation called "buy in large" and the only people that were left in the world were these few incredibly obese individuals floating in space."

VOA: standard.2010.01.23