in ruins

基本解释

The town lay in ruins after a heavy bombardment.
在猛烈轰炸以后城镇成了一片废墟。
But it is a very different world from the one left in ruins in 1945.
不过，比起那在1945年剩下的废墟，当今的世界已经大有不同。
The presidency should be the last thing on the minds [of the main politicians], because one can become president, but receive a country in ruins.
总统职位应是这些主要政客们最后考虑的问题。因为一个人可以成为总统，却要管理一个废墟中的国家。

But the economy was in ruins, falling faster with each passing day of the crisis that grew into the Great Depression.
Archaeologists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were stunned to find the ruins and the records of remarkable peoples and cultures--massive, complex empires in some cases, but some of which had completely disappeared from human memory.
十九和二十世纪的考古学家们,震惊地发现了,古代伟大名族和文化的遗迹，有些还是大规模，复杂的帝国遗迹,但也有一些就完全从人类记忆中消失了。
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It was not surprising that the North showed little sympathy when the fighting stopped and the South lay in ruins.

Because it was only two miles wide, by war's end it was largely in ruins.
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