But this year I 've also dealt with a close friend 's cancer , and the loss of a family member to it , so I know what it feels like to stand in the frustrated , terrified place of watching a loved one go through hospital trips and weird side effects and the ravages of disease .
The difficulty is that the hospital is old ( 1950s vintage ) , has only two doctors ( for all the 290000 people in the district ) and has to charge for the anti-retroviral drugs that can arrest the ravages of aids in infected people .
Negotiators have released a draft version of a new global agreement on climate change , which is widely billed as the last chance to save the planet from the ravages of global warming .
It was already too late though for iraq 's southern shia , who despite western support for their uprising , were left to the ravages of the iraqi republican guard , and killed in their thousands .
Europe 's leaders must " protect " the continent from the ravages of globalisation .
欧洲领导人必须“保护”欧洲大陆不受全球化的蹂躏。
This work , peculiar to the whole of europe , effected more ravages in germany than anywhere else .
这部著作,风行于整个欧洲,在德国比在任何地方为害更烈。
The united nations is seeking to shield those that survive from the ravages of time .
联合国试图保护那些经过岁月洗刷后残存下来的遗迹。
The health of many millions of africans has also improved , thanks in part to the wider distribution of mosquito nets and the gradual easing of the ravages of hiv / aids .