extermination
英 [ɪksˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən]
美 [ɪkˌstɜrməˈneɪʃən]
n. 绝灭,消灭,根绝
BNC.21446 / COCA.18574
柯林斯词典
- VERB 消灭;灭绝;根除
Toexterminatea group of people or animals means to kill all of them.- A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats...
灭鼠花了大力气。 - They have a real fear that they'll be exterminated in the ongoing civil war...
他们十分害怕自己会在持续的内战中被彻底消灭。 - Man is exterminating too many species for zoos to be much help.
人类正在导致过多物种灭绝,动物园也无济于事。
- A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats...
英英释义
noun
- the act of exterminating
- complete annihilation
- they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs
双语例句
- Time has helped me understand him better. I finally realized his remark that I am "some loathsome vermin fit only for extermination" was said more out of compassion than anger.
岁月流逝,让我能够更好地理解他,我终于明白他说我是“一种讨人厌的害虫,只应当被消灭”时,与其说是出于生气,倒不如说是出于同情。 - Any army which, losing the initiative, is forced into a passive position and ceases to have freedom of action, faces the danger of defeat or extermination.
军队失掉了主动权,被逼处于被动地位,这个军队就不自由,就有被消灭或被打败的危险。 - Incapable of extermination or extirpation.
不能够被消灭或者根除。 - General Younis said that without Nato action, Misrata residents faced extermination within a week.
Younis将军表示,如果北约不采取行动,米苏拉塔居民一周之内即将灭绝。 - The Karen people comprising mostly of poor Christian farmers have been singled out for extermination.
卡伦帮内部从事农业耕种的、贫困的基督徒被挑选出来并屠杀。 - One could not hunt whales at will without risking their extermination or catch herring limitlessly without threatening survival of the stock.
人们不可能随心所欲地捕鲸而不使其遭致灭绝的危险,或无限制地捕捞鲱鱼而不威胁到该物种的繁衍生息。 - Their extermination shall be for their own good.
为了他们自己,他们必须被消灭。 - Bedbug harm investigation to servicemen and effect observation of extermination in an archery ground
某靶场臭虫危害调查和杀灭效果观察 - He lifted the telephone, and railway trains left for the extermination centres;
他拿起电话,火车就向灭绝集中营进发; - What judgments does he offer about the enslavement of blacks and the extermination of Native Americans in America?
对于黑人的奴役和美洲原住民的消灭,他提出怎样的批评?
