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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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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We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency—a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here.

我们人类，正面临着一种全球性的紧急情况——这是对我们文明生存的威胁，正当我们聚集在这里的时候，这种威胁正积聚着不祥的破坏性潜力。

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The genome could also help farmers avoid Asian soybean rust disease, a highly destructive fungus spread by the wind.

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When it comes to the dangers that I might have faced when it came to going down a more destructive path.

当我在书中谈到我可能遇到的危险时,当我谈到走上一条更具毁灭性的道路时。

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Since we're talking about wave functions, since we're talking about the properties of waves, we don't only have constructive interference, we can also imagine a case where we would have destructive interference.

因为我们讨论的是波函数，因为我们讨论的是波的性质，我们不仅有相长干涉，我们也可以想象在,某种情况下会有相消干涉。

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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.

BBC: Rocket launches Chinese space lab

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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