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

那场战争尽显人性中具有破坏性的一面。

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Hurricane Katrina is widely considered the measure for a destructive storm, holding the maximum Category 5 designation for a full 24 hours in late August 2005.

卡特里娜飓风被广泛认为是破坏性风暴，在2005年8月底的整整24小时内，它的最高级别为5级。

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If we acknowledge that human manipulation of the Earth has been a destructive force, we can also imagine that human endeavours can help us build a less destructive world in the centuries to come.

如果我们承认人类对地球的操纵是一种破坏，我们也可以认为，人类的努力可以帮助我们在未来几个世纪建立一个破坏性较小的世界。

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China says that at the end of their missions, the modules will be driven into the atmosphere for a destructive descent into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean.

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In his 2004 novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, writer and social critic Tom Wolfe describes a sharp-witted female student who is, on paper, ideally suited for an Ivy League school, yet she finds herself brought down by a destructive social life at a fictional university.

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Though the vista was decidedly grand, we were eager to get down to that destructive trickle a mile below, to do something besides point and shoot.

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