adv.毀滅地；敗壞地

The banks' managements ruinously failed to assess the real risks their companies took in pursuit of profit. 銀行管理層未能評估其公司在追求利潤過程中承擔(dān)的真實風(fēng)險，導(dǎo)致了毀滅性后果。

In fact, it's not a system at all: it is a ruinously expensive, tiring and highly political game in which almost everyone emerges a loser. 事實上，它根本算不上一個制度：它只是一個異常昂貴、使人疲憊而且勾心斗角的游戲。在這一制度下，幾乎每個人都是輸家。

Unlike many stars, he hated to sing praises to the big man in the leopard-skin hat, who would rule ruinously for three decades. 溫杜老爹和許多歌星都不一樣，他痛恨那些戴著美洲豹皮帽的大人物，并討厭給這些人唱贊美詩，而正是這些人將要毀滅性地統(tǒng)治剛果30年。

He can be the prime minister who rescued the banks;or he can be the man who saved the banks but ruinously misled a nation. 他可以做一個挽救銀行的首相，也可以成為救了銀行卻毀滅性地誤導(dǎo)了一個國家的人。

It can be ruinously expensive. 貴得要死。