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She battered up her car in the accident.
她在事故中把自己的汽车撞坏了。
WHILE housing bubbles battered Nevada and Arizona, most of the territory sitting astride the Rocky Mountains had a better recession than the country as a whole.
当房地产泡沫重创了内华达州与亚利桑那州时，坐座在落基山两侧的地区却遭受了高于全国整体水平的衰退。
The scene is an intricately rendered city, bristling with skyscrapers but bereft of any inhabitants apart from a battered, industrious robot and his loyal cockroach sidekick.
场景是一个杂乱的城市，密布着摩天大楼，除了一个破旧的勤快机器人和他忠心的蟑螂伙伴外，没有任何人类出现。

You might wonder how such treasures survived the hurricanes,fires, and recessions that have surely battered the area and indeed they have.
Utnapishtim And finally exhausted and battered he reaches Utnapishtim, also there on the board, Utnapishtim, who is the only mortal ever to have been granted immortality by the gods, and he comes to him and asks for his secret.
耗尽精力，终于到达，在屏幕上的Utnapishtim，是上帝恩准的唯一,可以长生不老的人，吉尔伽美什跟他讨教长生的秘密。
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We will be there soon." Win or lose on Sunday, Garson says he plans to return to Haiti in April and offer help to the battered country.

The industrial Midwest has been similarly battered, and Democratic losses there may be more substantial.
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Something that is battered is old and in poor condition because it has been used a lot.
coated in batter