實體的摧毀
最原始、最具體的一支：被夷平的是看得見的東西。
hugely destructive · adjective · C1
Causing very serious damage to buildings, trees, crops, or animals, or almost completely destroying them.
毀滅性的
核心畫面
You can think of it as the look of a place after a storm or a bomb has passed through: , wiped out, nothing left standing. Everything the word covers keeps something of that force — a power that arrives and levels whatever it meets.
颱風或炸彈掃過之後的那片景象——房子塌了、樹倒了、田毀了，站著的東西全被抹平。devastating 講的一直是「有…更多收起
颱風或炸彈掃過之後的那片景象——房子塌了、樹倒了、田毀了，站著的東西全被抹平。devastating 講的一直是「有一股力量壓過來，把原本好好的東西夷平」。後面幾個意思都還帶著這個畫面，只是被夷平的東西從房子換成了人的心情、對手的防線，甚至換成別人看到你時心裡那一下被擊中的感覺。Four branches
打在人心上
被夷平的東西從房子換成了一個人的內在——同樣是一股力量壓過來，人整個垮掉。
emotionally crushing · adjective · C1
Making someone feel extremely sad or shocked, often because something very bad has happened to them.
令人崩潰
壓倒對手的威力
同樣一股壓過去的力量，但這裡從被摧毀方換到施力方來看——強到對方擋不住。
extremely impressive · adjective · C1
Very impressive or working so well that other people can hardly match it.
極具威力
美到讓人招架不住
還是那一擊，但打中的是看的人：吸引力強到讓人失守。
stunningly attractive · adjective · C1
Extremely attractive, in a way that makes people notice you strongly.
極迷人
原始詞典資料2 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。
devastatingadj
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Causing devastation.
- Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.
- “The whole world has a stake in maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. The security of commercial shipping lanes and global supply chains depends on it. And so does freedom of navigation worldwide. Make no mistake: conflict in the Taiwan Strait would be devastating.”
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。