讓人整個垮掉
把「整片夷平」搬到心裡：不是難過一下，而是整個人被打空。
shock and sadden · verb · B2
To make someone feel so shocked and sad that they can hardly bear it.
使震驚；使心碎
核心畫面
Picture a stretch of land after a flood or a fire: not damaged here and there, but , with nothing left standing across the whole area. Point that same picture at a person and you get the other use — news that leaves someone with nothing standing inside.
可以想成：洪水或大火過後的一片土地——不是這裡壞一塊、那裡壞一塊，而是整片被夷平，什麼都沒剩下。把同一個畫面對準一個…更多收起
可以想成：洪水或大火過後的一片土地——不是這裡壞一塊、那裡壞一塊，而是整片被夷平，什麼都沒剩下。把同一個畫面對準一個人，就是另一種用法：一個消息傳來，人裡面也什麼都不剩了。From the picture
Also in this word
destroy badly · verb · B2
to damage a place or thing very badly, often over a wide area.
摧毀；嚴重破壞
原始詞典資料4 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。
devastateverb/ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/
- 1
To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
- Halifax in Canada was devastated by a ship exploding in 1917. SS Mont Blanc, a French vessel loaded with 2.9 kilotons of explosives, collided with the Imo.
- 2
To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
- 3
To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
- 4
To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay
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。