destroyer

駆逐艦

ほかの船を守り、敵の船や航空機を攻撃する高速の軍艦。

やさしい英語で： A fast military ship used to protect other ships and attack enemy ships or aircraft.

• The destroyer entered the harbour.
• Two destroyers escorted the larger ship across the ocean.
• Her grandfather served on a destroyer during the war.

よく使う表現： naval destroyer, a missile destroyer, aboard a destroyer

破壊者、破壊するもの

何かを壊したり、消滅させたりする人やもの。

やさしい英語で： A person or thing that ruins something or makes it stop existing.

• Fire is a powerful destroyer.
• He became known as a destroyer of ancient monuments.
• These chemicals are silent destroyers of river life.

使い方： destroyer of something (They saw the war as a destroyer of hope.)

類義語： devastator, decimator

よく使う表現： destroyer of worlds, destroyer of dreams, a ruthless destroyer