The volcano erupted in 1980, devastating a large area of Washington state.

这座火山1980年喷发，摧毁了华盛顿州的大片地区。

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Reagan says almost from the time his father first learned he was ill, he has been part of a national campaign to raise public awareness about this devastating and heartbreaking illness.

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This is a devastating and, I think, brilliant argument.

我认为这是压倒性的，极其精彩的论证。

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So this sort of structural repetition creates a crescendo that leads then to the finaland most devastating plague which is the slaughter of the Egyptian firstborn sons.

所以这种结构上的反复，创造了一种渐渐加强的效果,最终到了最后一个，也是最具毁灭性的瘟疫,对埃及人长子的屠杀。

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You may not be in as heated a crucible or as devastating a trust void as Armstrong, and therefore the importance of trust may not seem as obvious.

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But at some point he noticed that returning to reality from the world of a novel was not as devastating a blow as returning from the world of math.

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From an economic standpoint, losing a job is devastating to a lot of families.

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