Those fifty bridal chambers I behold / (so fair the promise of a future reign) / and spoil-deckt pillars of barbaric gold, / a wreck; where fails the flame, its place the Danaans hold.

So spake he, on his purpose firmly bent. / We – wife, child, family and I – with prayer / and tears entreat the father to relent, / nor doom us all the common wreck to share, / and urge the ruin that the Fates prepare.

"If Heaven of such a city naught should spare, / and thou be pleased that thou and thine should share / the common wreck, that way to death is plain. / Wide stands the door; soon Pyrrhus will be there, / red with the blood of Priam; he hath slain / the son before his sire, the father in the fane."

Whom then did I upbraid not, wild with woe, / of gods or men? What sadder sight elsewhere / had Troy, now whelmed in utter wreck, to show?

I'm an emotional wreck.

Last April, staff from the Oregon Coast Aquarium rescued more than a dozen yellowtail jacks and one striped beakfish from a half-sunk, fiberglass wreck coated in seaweed. It was the front half of a roughly 15-meter-long commercial fishing vessel.

Mennad was a wreck.

The wreck will stay where it is, serving as the sailors' final resting place.

Tom was a nervous wreck.

I was a nervous wreck.

Mary was a nervous wreck.

He's a wreck.

He wasn't injured in the train wreck.

She wasn't injured in the train wreck.

Tom was injured in the train wreck.

My life has become a wreck.

Tom was a wreck.

A man in a long duster had dismounted from the wreck and now stood in the middle of the road, looking from the car to the tire and from the tire to the observers in a pleasant, puzzled way.

I hope she doesn't wreck your marriage.

The cause of the wreck is still unknown.

I have become an old wreck.

I have turned into an old wreck.

I feel like an old wreck.

Who needs this old wreck?

You are a moldering wreck.

You are a mouldering wreck.

You are a rotting wreck.

We still don't know what caused the wreck.

At the coastal periphery of my university, UBC, is the nudist Wreck Beach.

Ziri looked like a nervous wreck.

Ziri was trapped in a train wreck following an accident.

The car was a rusty wreck.

No passengers were hurt in the wreck.

As hard as we try to not be superstitious, there are still annoying coincidences designed to wreck havoc in even the most balanced of minds.

RMS Titanic sank and the wreck of RMS Olympic is under water.

Today was also the first day the scientists were able to get in the water. This is my first cruise to the monument and I was beyond excited to hear I would get a few hours to snorkel the maritime archeologist’s field sites. The archeology team and I were launched from one of the Hi’ialakai’s small boats and were soon hovering over a wreck that is thought to be an American whaling ship. It was particularly intriguing as a marine mammal scientist to be able to see large pots used to render oil from the whales, blubber hooks, and other whaling paraphernalia scattered along the reef. Marine mammals played such an important role in the human history of these islands, it is exciting to be able to return to these sites as a scientist and simultaneously learn about whales’ past and present influence on this area.

Our house is a wreck.

It was like a train wreck.

You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.

含“wreck”的英语例句