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
- Someone who exterminates; someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects.
一个从事消灭工作的人；一个以根除啮齿动物和害虫为职业的人。 - 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 - Thought to be domesticated dogs gone feral, wild dogs have borne the brunt of extensive extermination programs.
野狗被认为是野化了的家狗，曾遭到大范围捕杀计划的打击。 - Their extermination shall be for their own good.
为了他们自己，他们必须被消灭。 - The purpose of which was the extermination of human beings.
目的却是要毁灭全人类。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。