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
- Their extermination shall be for their own good.
为了他们自己,他们必须被消灭。 - What's going on is an organized extermination of an entire race of people.
现在所发生的有组织的灭绝全人类的种族事件,我们就该是该插手的国家。 - For other crimes as tyrants and oppressors, I have this race a long time on my register, doomed to destruction and extermination.
在我的记录上我还记载着这个家族其它的横行霸道、欺压百姓的罪行,而且注定要消灭,斩草除根。 - International measures have been taken to prevent the extermination of the whale.
采取全球性措施以防鲸鱼灭绝。 - The Wright's organic architectural philosophy extermination in Naxi civil house culture
赖特的有机建筑哲学在纳西民居文化中的体现 - The extermination of the Jews had no connection with the war effort of Germany and her allies.
而灭绝犹太人的行为,却与德国及其盟邦的战争努力没有任何关系。 - By successfully tricking the Jade Emperor in this way, humanity was saved from extermination.
通过这种方式,人们成功骗过了玉皇大帝,人类也因此逃过灭绝的危险。 - 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。 - More passive children almost always die before reaching adolescence, either by starvation or extermination by their peers.
不够积极主动的小孩在青春期之前就死了,死于饥饿或是同龄人之手。 - Extermination of the Buffalo and the Destiny of the Indians on the Great Plain
野牛的灭绝与大平原印第安人的命运