So this sort of structural repetition creates a crescendo that leads then to the finaland most devastating plague which is the slaughter of the Egyptian firstborn sons.

所以这种结构上的反复，创造了一种渐渐加强的效果,最终到了最后一个，也是最具毁灭性的瘟疫,对埃及人长子的屠杀。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So it is not anything like, even as one reads it in retrospect, a wholesale repudiation or even really a very devastating critique of Levi-Strauss.

所以即使是我们回过头来看，这也不是对列维观点的全面否认,更不是对他的毁灭性批判。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So it will be devastating for a very long time.

所以那会让人难过很久。

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It's a devastating, frequently fatal infectious disease.

它是一种毁灭性的,频繁发病的致命疾病

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Under-nutrition--now I'm going -this slide has a lot of information on it and I'm going to come back to it in the class where we talk about hunger, but I show it today because of course undernutrition can affect every single system of the body and can have devastating consequences on people's health.

营养不良,这张幻灯片上有很多关于营养不良的信息,以后讲到饥饿的时候,我会再回头来讲这张幻灯片,我今天让大家看是想告诉大家,营养不良一定会影响身体的每一个系统,并对人们的健康造成巨大的破坏

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This is a devastating and, I think, brilliant argument.

我认为这是压倒性的，极其精彩的论证。

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