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    nB2

    /dɪˈstrʌkʃən/

    The act of damaging something so badly that it no longer exists or cannot be used, or the state of being ruined like this.

    破壞；毀滅

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核心畫面

Picture something that was put together piece by piece — a house, a forest, a city — being taken apart again until nothing is left standing and nothing is left to use. 'Destruction' names that whole event, and also the state it leaves behind. The key is that it is not a scratch or a dent: it is the un-building of a thing.

destruction 可以想成「把蓋起來的東西反過來拆掉」的畫面：一棟房子、一片森林、一座城市，本來是一塊一塊堆起…更多收起destruction 可以想成「把蓋起來的東西反過來拆掉」的畫面：一棟房子、一片森林、一座城市，本來是一塊一塊堆起來的，現在被一塊一塊拆掉，拆到沒有東西還站著、也沒有東西還能用。這個字同時指「拆」的那個過程，和拆完之後留下的那個狀態。

From the word’s history

Latin destruere is literally 'un-build': de- 'down, un-' plus struere 'to pile up, build'. English took the noun destructionem 'a pulling down' around 1300, via Old French. The modern word still carries that picture — not damage to a thing, but the taking-apart of something that had been put together.

拉丁文 destruere 字面就是「反過來蓋」：de-（往下、反向）加上 struere（堆起、建造），合起來是「拆毀」。英文在 1300 年前後經由古法文借進 destruction「拆毀、被毀的狀態」。這個字到今天都還帶著那個畫面——不是把東西弄壞一點，而是把原本組合起來的東西整個拆散。

Online Etymology Dictionary — https://www.etymonline.com/word/destruction

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

destructionnoun/dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/

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    The act of destroying.

    • The destruction of the condemned building will take place at noon.
    • It may be that a free society as we have known it carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of the foundations on which it depends.
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    The results of a destructive event.

    • Amid the seemingly endless destruction, a single flower bloomed.
    • If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.
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    A group of feral cats.

    • A group of wild cats is called a destruction.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。