be / lie in ruins

be / lie in ruinsa. if a building is in ruins, it has fallen down or been badly damaged〔建筑物〕倒塌，破败不堪b. if someone's life, a country's ECONOMY etc is in ruins, it is affected by very great problems〔生活、国家经济等〕崩溃，垮掉:•Her marriage was in ruins.她的婚姻破裂了。

• Trojan horse
• trilobate
• oughtn't
• gibbsites
• roisteringly
• pea crabs
• walk the hospital
• phytopathological
• discharge lamps
• surrogate gestational motherhood
• tan-ooze
• rough breathing
• logograms
• new-fashioned
• polymastigotes
• training ship
• cedula
• discuses
• breeders
• enstatitic
• anti-Stokes lines
• artificial tooth
• videocassette recorder
• standing crop
• thecia
• sapful
• misoneism
• scene-stealer
• cape primrose
• put（或set）spurs to
• call-up
• decub.
• do a sum by proportion
• autopoisonous
• minipills
• i.m
• off the beaten track / path
• scrimpier
• rhodo
• second category
• isogenous
• Kagawa, Toyohiko
• be mentioned in dispatches
• dressing glass
• in range with
• application file
• fart
• zipper conveyor
• sit in for sb
• fungal
• carcinemia
• ACI
• Gr. Brit., Gr. Br.
• the other evening
• reconvert
• Pompeian
• lemon curd
• standard parallels
• allonym
• Canyonlands National Park
• stivy
• commensurably
• grave as a an owl
• Kongo
• European Union
• even now（或then）
• make a name
• the little people (或 folk)
• pigtail
• ambisonic
• metallic rectifier
• stand in for
• bracteates
• krantze
• love seats
• countersorcery
• personalist
• superintendence
• isobutanes
• Montenegro test
• wallpaperer
• creased
• Bedford, John of Lancaster
• hung beef
• fiascos
• setoes
• hummuss
• amoxycillin
• and such like
• heatlike
• flagellas
• niche-manship
• speed-read
• no good / not much good / not any good
• yogism
• ram it
• drachms
• oval
• fractionate
• Napier's compasses