荼毒生灵 meaning in English
plunge the people into the depths of suffering; abuse and oppress the people
Examples
- He was enraged at the waste .
他觉得这样荼毒生灵实在令人气愤。 - Failing this mankind would stand at the bar of abstract justice ( for there may be no posterity to judge ) as the mass murderer of life generally , his own included , and mass disrupter of the intricate planetary development that made life in its present glory possible in the first place
人类如果做不到这一点，那就会成为大规模荼毒生灵（包括人类自身）的凶杀，成为大规模破坏地球错综复杂的进化（是这种进化最终形成了目前这种生命繁荣的景象）的罪魁祸首而受到抽象意义上的法庭的审判（因为到那时可能已经没有子孙后代来审判他了） 。