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ruination(n.)

"使毁灭的行为,被毁灭的状态",1660年代,动作或状态的名词,来自现在罕见或已废弃的动词 ruinate "走向毁灭"(1540年代),它来自中世纪拉丁语 ruinatus,过去分词 ruinare,源自拉丁语 ruina(参见 ruin(n.))。

ruination is not, like flirtation, floatation, & botheration, a hybrid derivative, being regularly formed from ruinate ; but it now has the effect of a slangy emphatic lengthening of the noun ruin ; this is only because the parent verb ruinate, which was common in serious use 1550-1700, is no longer heard ; but the result is that ruination is better avoided except in facetious contexts. [Fowler, 1926]
毁灭不像 flirtationfloatationbotheration 那样是混合衍生词,它是从 ruinate 定期形成的; 但现在它具有俚语强调名词 ruin 的效果; 这仅因为父动词 ruinate,它在1550-1700年间常用于严肃用途,现在不再听到; 但结果是最好避免在幽默的语境之外使用 ruination。[福勒,1926]

该词起源时间:1660年代