OG-159，请教！

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159.    While depressed property values can hurt some large investors, they are potentially devastating for home-owners, whose equity—in many cases representing a life’s savings—can plunge or even disappear.
(A) they are potentially devastating for homeowners, whose
(B) they can potentially devastate homeowners in that their
(C) for homeowners they are potentially devastating, because their
(D) for homeowners, it is potentially devastating in that their
(E) it can potentially devastate homeowners, whose

答案是A。答案A 里devastating是什么词性？如果理解are devastating为进行时，后面似乎不应该用介词for,因为devastate本身是及物动词；如果理解为动名词，似乎又不能用potentially修饰，因为它是副词，不能修饰名词。

魚子醬秋天

i have the  same Q...........

could anyone help us to clarify it ??

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JerryGuan

devastating 可否理解为：形容词“具有破坏性的”。