0119名無しさん@英語勉強中 (US 0H53-zbO4)
2017/12/17(日) 06:43:53.95ID:VqJxvwCSHDon't listen to anything Trump says. He literally just lies when he feels like it.
Regardless, if someone were to say some event "devastated entire industries" within a nation, the meaning is a little complicated.
This event would seriously harm some industries to the point of collapse, and industries connected to the industries harmed;
However it would not completely disable all industries.
That phrase would usually be used for massive economic or environmental disasters, or perhaps the result of wars,