43 bang up; crack up; finish off; smash up

● 本组词组均意为“损坏”之意，均为动副型词组。

● bang up意为瞬间毁坏某物，常伴随“砰”声，一般用主动形式。如：He banged up his car in the race.（他在比赛中把车给弄坏了。）The car banged up a lamppost.（汽车撞坏了一根路灯柱。）Her car banged up our fence.（她的车把我们的篱笆撞坏了。）John banged up his knee playing cricket.（约翰打板球碰伤了膝盖。）When they bang you up, you don’t speak to anyone for hours.（当他们把你锁进牢房内，你就几个小时不能对任何人说话。）

● crack up指身体垮掉时无被动式，指机械故障时则一般用主动式。如：If she works as hard as this, all the time, she’ll eventually crack up.（如果她总是这样辛苦工作，身体会渐渐垮掉的。）It surely can’t be that the old firm is cracking up after all these years.（经过这么多年之后，那家老商行竟然要破产了，这怎么可能呢？）Engine failure cracked the plane up.（发动机发生故障使飞机坠毁。）He flew into the side of a mountain and cracked up.（他驾驶的飞机撞到山坡上，机毁人亡。）

● finish off是非正式用语，多用一般时态和主动形式。如：He had a high fever which nearly finished him off.（他发了一次高烧，差点把命送了。）His broken leg finished him off as an athlete. （腿断了使他结束了运动员生涯。）A long drive like that could finish the car off. （像这样的长途驱车可能会彻底毁了这辆车。）This last bombing should finish off the city. （这最后一次轰炸应当把全市都毁掉。）

● smash up较常用。如：He became violent and started to smash the furniture up.（他变得暴跳如雷并开始捣毁家具。）I daren’t let the children drive in case they smash up the car.（我不敢让孩子们开车，免得他们把车撞坏了。）She was a promising student until she got smashed up in a road accident.（她是一名很有前途的学生，后来在一次车祸中被毁掉了。）An air-raid shelter in Baghdad was smashed up, more than 400 civilians killed.（巴格达的一所掩避部被炸毁，四百多平民身亡。）