I have observed how destructive a person's dishonesty has been to his chances for success, and how his relationships with other people are purely superficial, based only on self-interest.

我目睹了一个人用欺骗毁掉了自己成功的机会，他与别人的关系统统是以个人利益为基础，因而纯粹是肤浅的。

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The war was a paradigm of the destructive side of human nature.

那场战争尽显人性中具有破坏性的一面。

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Hurricane Katrina is widely considered the measure for a destructive storm, holding the maximum Category 5 designation for a full 24 hours in late August 2005.

卡特里娜飓风被广泛认为是破坏性风暴，在2005年8月底的整整24小时内，它的最高级别为5级。

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The genome could also help farmers avoid Asian soybean rust disease, a highly destructive fungus spread by the wind.

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When it comes to the dangers that I might have faced when it came to going down a more destructive path.

当我在书中谈到我可能遇到的危险时,当我谈到走上一条更具毁灭性的道路时。

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Since we're talking about wave functions, since we're talking about the properties of waves, we don't only have constructive interference, we can also imagine a case where we would have destructive interference.

因为我们讨论的是波函数，因为我们讨论的是波的性质，我们不仅有相长干涉，我们也可以想象在,某种情况下会有相消干涉。

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China says that at the end of their missions, the modules will be driven into the atmosphere for a destructive descent into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean.

BBC: Rocket launches Chinese space lab

In his 2004 novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, writer and social critic Tom Wolfe describes a sharp-witted female student who is, on paper, ideally suited for an Ivy League school, yet she finds herself brought down by a destructive social life at a fictional university.

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Though the vista was decidedly grand, we were eager to get down to that destructive trickle a mile below, to do something besides point and shoot.

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