1.The prohibition of heroin has the devastating effect of forcing the price up to a level which can only be characterized as astronomical.
禁用海洛因所造成的严重后果，就是促使药价攀升到只能用「直上云霄」来形容。
2.The testimony which he saw for the first time had a profoundly devastating effect on him and led to the change of direction in this trial.
那个他第一次看到的证词对他有着深远的毁灭性的效果，并且最终改变了审判的方向。
3.He rarely spoke, but when he did, it was always with extraordinary precision and often with devastating effect.
他很少说话，但一旦开口，他的话往往极为准确，而且常常具有压倒一切的威力。
4.The catastrophe: As if the political turmoil weren't bad enough, nature struck Haiti in2004 to devastating effect.
如果政治动乱带来的灾难还不够严重，2004年发生在海地的自然灾害也足以摧毁一切了。
5.The depressed world prices created by farm policies over the past few decades have had a devastating effect.
因过去几十年的农业政策而受到压抑的世界价格已经产生了毁灭性的效果。
6.Analysts say turning off the fire hydrants that supply most of the water to the protesters could have a devastating effect.
分析人士表示，关闭目前向抗议者供应大部分水的消防栓，可能导致严重后果。
7.Besides you can never really cut the "blood connections" to your family members without producing a devastating effect on your family tree.
另外，你绝不可能真的切断家人的「血缘」，而不在家族上产生毁灭性的影响。
8.In the second world war rumours circulated of a giant German sonic device that could be deployed to devastating effect on the battlefield.
二战期间，德国把巨大的音响设备设置在战场上，用来散播谣言以达到破坏的目的。
9.The Kremlin's decision to use brutal force to destroy the experiment had a devastating effect on the Euro-communist movement.
克里姆林宫动用血腥武力破坏这场社会实验的决定，对欧洲共产主义运动起了毁灭性的作用。
10.IN RECENT years investment banks were supposedly hijacked by boffins who used their nuclear-physics doctorates to devastating effect.
近年来投行就像那些被拥有核物理知识的专家胁的世界一样而导致毁灭性的影响。