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decimate的近义词是什么

2022-12-05 来源:汇意旅游网

decimate的近义词是:annihilate消灭;destroy破坏。decimate名词:decimation;过去式:decimated;过去分词:decimated;现在分词:decimating;第三人称单数:decimates。decimate的读音是英['desɪmeɪt];美['desɪmeɪt]。

一、英英释义点此查看decimate的详细内容

Verb:
  1. kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
  2. kill in large numbers;

    "the plague wiped out an entire population"

二、词典解释

1.大批杀死;大量毁灭
Todecimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.

decimate的翻译

e.g. The pollution coulddecimate the river's thriving population of kingfishers...
污染可能会造成河边大量繁殖的翠鸟大批死亡。
e.g. British forces in the Caribbean were being decimated by disease.
加勒比海地区的英国部队有大批的人病死。

decimation
...the decimation of the great rain forests.
广阔雨林大片的毁灭

2.严重削弱,大幅缩减(系统或机构)
Todecimate a system or organization means to reduce its size and effectiveness greatly.

e.g. ...a recession which decimated the nation's manufacturing industry.
使该国制造业元气大伤的经济衰退

decimation
Government policies have resulted in a decimation of essential services used by the poor.
政府的政策导致穷人所能享受到的基础服务大大减少。

三、例句

Student numbers have been decimated by cuts in grants.

助学金削减後,学生人数大大减少。

Disease has decimated the population.

疾病使大部分人死亡。

四、经典引文

  • All my parents' friends, all my friends' brothers were getting killed. Our circle was decimated.

    出自:R. Lehmann
  • Plague decimated Moscow in 1771.

    出自:V. Cronin

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