It caused devastation by burrowing and by devouring the herbage which might have maintained millions of sheep and cattle.
它们在地下打洞，吃掉本可以饲养数百万头牛羊的牧草，给澳洲大陆造成了毁灭性的破环。
新概念英语第四册 Lesson 17 A man-made disease

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

devastation [ˌdevəs'teiʃən] 词根: 空
n. 毁坏;荒废;极度震惊或悲伤;
"There was devastation on every side."
到处都是破坏的创伤.
近义：havoc, plundering, ravaging, razing, ruin, wrack
sheep [ʃip] 词频1
n. 羊，绵羊;胆小鬼;易受人摆布的人;缺乏主见或轻易盲从的人;
💡 sheep ee似“卷毛”，长在“绵羊”身上，ship i像“烟囱”，立在“轮船”上。 deer（鹿）和sheep（绵羊）单数和复数的形式相同，不在词尾加s。“
"the black sheep of the family"
家族败类
近义：mutton, lamb, ram, ovine
cattle ['kætl] 词频1 词根: 头
n. （总称）牛，牲口;畜生;无价值的人;〈美俚〉女学生;
"a herd of cattle"
一群牛
近义：livestock, stock, bovine
herbage
n. 草本, 草, 草的柔软部分\\n[医] 草本植物, 多汁部分(叶及细小的茎)
近义：pasture, pastureland, fodder, grass, grassland, grazing
devouring
v. 吞没( devour的现在分词 ); 耗尽; 津津有味地看; 狼吞虎咽地吃光
近义：consuming, eater 反义：measured, mild, moderate, abstemious, abstentious, austere

📚 更多「新概念英语第四册」例句

He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous,
这些年轻人也许狂妄自负，举止无理，傲慢放肆，愚昧无知，
and we have to lower into the ground and haul out of the ground great lengths of drill pipe which are rotated by an engine at the top and are fitted with a cutting bit at the bottom.
我们必须把很长的钻杆一节节地钻入地下，然后再从地下拉出来。钻杆顶部安装的发动机带动钻杆旋转，它的底部装有钻头。
Both poisons are unpleasant, but by far the more unpleasant is the blood poison.
这两种毒液都很可怕，但溶血性毒液尤其厉害。
she presented a more majestic spectacle than Stockholmers had ever seen before.
瓦萨号展现的壮观景象是斯德哥尔摩人从未见过的。
who put his questions to nature instead of to the ancients,
他向自然界而不是向古人提出问题，
This temptation to cover the distance between himself and the reader,
这种企图消除自己和读者之间距离的作法，