To continue to sell Great Lakes in face of its rising price--that was ruin. To cease to sell it and so let its price go up to where he could not buy when settlement time came--that was ruin. To sell Woolens, to help batter down its price, to shrink the value of his enormous investment in it--ruin again. To buy Woolens in order to hold up its price, to do it when he would need all obtainable cash to extricate him from the Great Lakes entanglement--ruin, certain ruin.英文原著 · 《The Cost》
"You will not trust him with me or take my advice. Very well, my friend! Now listen! You want to ruin me! Well, if I go, the Bekwando Company shall go too, you understand! Ruin for me shall mean ruin for Mr. Scarlett Trent - ah, ruin and disgrace. It shall mean imprisonment if I can bring it about, and I have friends!英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
ah, Duke, what is it? a heart Which is only a ruin!" With words warm and wild, "Though a ruin it be, trust me yet to rebuild And restore it," Luvois cried; "though ruin'd it be, Since so dear is that ruin, ah, yield it to me!" He approach'd her. She shrank back. The grief in her eyes Answer'd, "No!" An emotion more fierce seem'd to rise And to break into flame, as though fired by the light Of that look, in his heart. He exclaim'd, "Am I right? You reject ME! Accept HIM?" "I have not done so," She said firmly. He hoarsely resumed, "Not yet--no!英文原著 · 《Lucile》
VENTIDIUS. Justice and pity both plead for Octavia; For Cleopatra, neither. One would be ruined with you; but she first Had ruined you: The other, you have ruined, And yet she would preserve you. In everything their merits are unequal.英文原著 · 《All For Love》
"Why?" rejoined the rider. "Because I order it."
Venters laughed in cool disdain. The red leaped to Tull's dark cheek. "If you don't go it means your ruin," he said, sharply. "Ruin!" exclaimed Venters, passionately. "Haven't you already ruined me? What do you call ruin? A year ago I was a rider.英文原著 · 《Riders of the Purple Sage》
"You don't know what you are talking about!" Wilbur cried out, in a choked way; then, his voice steadying, he rushed on: "Listen! I am a ruined man, absolutely ruined. And Markel has ruined me--I did not see through his trick until too late. Listen! For years, as a mining engineer, I made a good salary--and I saved it. Two years ago I had nearly seventy thousand dollars--it represented my life work. I bought an abandoned mine in Alaska for next to nothing--I was certain it was rich. A man by the name of Thurl, Jason T.英文原著 · 《The Adventures of Jimmie Dale》
Potatoes are ruined. Potatoes are ruined. Potatoes are ruined.美剧 · 《Friends》
Go home. You've ruined it. You've ruined it.美剧 · 《Friends》
That's all wrong. You guys ruined everything. You ruined it.美剧 · 《Friends》
It's a very exciting twist ending, like an O. Henry novel, so I won't ruin it. It's a very exciting twist ending, like an O. Henry novel, so I won't ruin it.演讲 · 《My year of living biblically ~ A.J. Jacobs》