The force of the blast was so massive it also brought down the Balousha family's house, which yesterday lay in ruins.(這次爆炸威力之大，也震倒了巴羅莎一家的房子，昨天它已是一片廢墟。)

Six days later L’Aquila and several surrounding villages lay in ruins.(但在六天之后拉奎拉和其周邊的幾個小村莊被地震夷為平地，滿目瘡痍。)

In 480 BC, Athens lay in ruins conquered by the seemingly unstoppable Persian Empire.(公元前480年，銳不可擋的波斯帝國大軍攻克雅典，雅典夷為廢墟。)

It didn't. Like tens of thousands of others, the business was in ruins.(他的服裝店沒有那么幸運(yùn)。和成千上萬的其他商店一樣，他的商店變成了一片廢墟。)

Why was the Soviet economy in ruins by 1991?(為什么蘇聯(lián)經(jīng)濟(jì)1991年崩潰？)

Thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.(荊棘長滿了地皮，刺草遮蓋了田面，石墻也坍塌了。)

In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.(15秒之內(nèi)一個大城市變成了廢墟。)

When they returned to Rockaway the next day, they found their neighbourhood in ruins.(第二天，當(dāng)他們回到洛基韋時，發(fā)現(xiàn)他們家附近已經(jīng)成了廢墟。)

When the British finally left, the country was virtually in ruins.(當(dāng)英國人最終離開后，國家滿目瘡痍。)

The house in which Schmeisser and his colleagues used to live is now in ruins.(施梅瑟和他的同事曾住過的那棟房子現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)成為廢墟。)