self-destruction
noun [ U ] uk/ˌself.dɪˈstrʌk.ʃən/ us/ˌself.dɪˈstrʌk.ʃən/
自我毁灭
behaviour by a person that is likely to make them fail or cause them to be harmed or killed
He was a wonderful actor bent on self-destruction. 他是一位优秀的演员，却自我毁灭的倾向非常明显。
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- What you also grasp is his stupendous gift for self-destruction.
- Her loving family can only watch in horror at her self-destruction .
- Others dismiss it as a wrongheaded notion that enables addicts to continue along the path to self-destruction.
- And he commits what turns out to be an act of self-destruction.
- That paranoia started his presidency down the path to self-destruction.