疮痍满目 meaning in English
everywhere a scene of devastation meets the eye. -- a sight of a warworn [war-torn] area; covered all over with wounds and scars; in a state of (bad) devastation; one sees suffering everywhere.; see evidence of people's distress everywhere; the wounded everywhere meet the eye -- the country is full of suffering and distress.; wherever one looks, there is devastation.: 疮痍满目的旧中国一去不复返了。 the devastated old china is gone for ever
Examples
- The devastated old china is gone forever .
疮痍满目的旧中国一去不复返了。 - Still another battleship appeared to be slightly damaged, and extensive damage had also been inflicted on other types of ships .
还有一艘主力舰似乎只受到微创，其他各型舰只都是疮痍满目。 - And it was not until modern times when the british , french , russian and japanese adventurers plundered large quantities of sutras from dunhuang ' s grottoes of buddhist texts and later the americans stole large numbers of frescoes that dunhuang regained its fame but became even more devastated
直到时序进入近代，英、法、俄、日的冒险家先后从敦煌藏经洞劫走大批典籍，接着美国人又盗取了大量壁画，敦煌这才重新声名大噪，并且变得更加疮痍满目。