be a wreck
常用来形容人身心疲惫、情绪崩溃的状态。另可用 a nervous wreck，语气更强。
She was a total wreck after the exam.
考试之后，她整个人都垮了。
残骸；废墟；垮掉的人（或物）；（海难后）冲上岸的货物；（恶劣天气导致的）大批死伤鸟类；被毁坏的事物或人。
An accident in which a vehicle, ship, or aircraft is destroyed or badly damaged in a collision.
被毁坏的事物或人。
Something or someone that has been ruined.
遭受严重损坏或磨损后的残骸。
The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
因碰撞而导致某物损坏的事件。
An event in which something is damaged through collision.
海难后被海浪冲上岸的货物等。
Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
因极端恶劣天气而坠地、受伤或死亡的大量鸟类。
A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.
The wreck of the fishing boat was washed up on the beach.
渔船的残骸被冲上了海滩。
用法提示：wreck作名词，指船只失事后留下的残骸。
After the collision, the motorcycle was a complete wreck.
碰撞之后，那辆摩托车完全成了一堆残骸。
用法提示：wreck作名词，表示被撞毁的车辆残骸。
Years of neglect turned the old school building into a wreck.
多年的疏于管理使旧校舍变成了一堆废墟。
用法提示：wreck作名词，指因破败而严重损坏的建筑物。
常用来形容人身心疲惫、情绪崩溃的状态。另可用 a nervous wreck，语气更强。
She was a total wreck after the exam.
考试之后，她整个人都垮了。
指严重损坏后留下的残骸，of 后接被毁坏的事物。
Divers searched the wreck of the plane for the flight recorder.
潜水员在飞机残骸中搜寻飞行记录仪。
美式英语中 a wreck 常指撞车事故，多用 in a wreck 表示“在事故中”。
Two people were injured in a wreck on the highway.
两人在高速公路上的一起撞车事故中受伤。
比 wreck 更常用于指车辆或飞机事故，语气较强
wreck 更强调事故或破坏的结果，ruin 多指建筑或事物的衰败
专指船只失事，与 wreck 的航海义相同
disaster 范围更广，wreck 特指事故或破坏的具体结果
debris 强调物理残骸，wreck 可指整个事件或状态
grammar · medium
易错句子After losing his job, he became wreck.
正确表达After losing his job, he became a wreck.
wreck 表示“垮掉的人”时是可数名词，单数泛指前必须加不定冠词 a/an。汉语名词不靠冠词来标示单复数，学习者容易漏掉 a，写成 became wreck；补上 a 后才构成完整的名词短语。
grammar · medium
易错句子After the storm, the beach was covered with wreck.
正确表达After the storm, the beach was covered with wreckage.
泛指散落一片的残骸、碎片时要用不可数名词 wreckage；wreck 是可数名词，指被毁掉的整艘船或整辆车本身，不能像物质名词那样表示“一片残骸”，所以这里必须换成 wreckage。
grammar · medium
易错句子The storm left two wreck on the beach.
正确表达The storm left two wrecks on the beach.
wreck 是可数名词，受具体数字 two 修饰时要用复数形式 wrecks，加 -s。汉语名词不随数量变化，学习者容易只记住原形而忘记变复数。
车祸
He survived a terrible car wreck last year.
他去年在一场可怕的车祸中幸存下来。
火车事故；灾难
The investigation focused on the cause of the train wreck.
调查聚焦于火车事故的原因。
海难；沉船
The ship wreck left only a few survivors.
这场海难只留下少数幸存者。
精神濒临崩溃的人
After the exam, she was a complete nervous wreck.
考试后，她整个人精神濒临崩溃。
神经极度紧张的人
She was a nervous wreck before the exam.
考试前她紧张得要命。
彻底失败的事
The project turned out to be a train wreck.
这个项目完全搞砸了。
落魄的人
After years of illness, he was a wreck of a person.
多年疾病后，他变得很落魄。
埃德蒙·菲茨杰拉德号的沉没
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is a famous song.
《埃德蒙·菲茨杰拉德号的沉没》是一首著名的歌曲。
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