extermination

英 [ɪksˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən]

美 [ɪkˌstɜrməˈneɪʃən]

n.  绝灭，消灭，根绝

复数：exterminations　

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.
  1. A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats...
     灭鼠花了大力气。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。

英英释义

noun

• the act of exterminating
  Synonym:liquidation
• complete annihilation
  1. they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs
  Synonym:extinction

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• Medicine, biological products or other relevant materials needed in prevention and extermination of animal epidemics shall be reserved in a proper quantity and shall be included in the plan for national economy and social development.
  预防和扑灭动物疫病所需的药品、生物制品和有关物资，应当有适量的储备，并纳入国民经济和社会发展计划。
• We have to think of a way to prevent the extermination of these beautiful creatures.
  我们必须想个办法来防止这些美丽的生物遭到灭绝。
• 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。
• The purpose of which was the extermination of human beings.
  目的却是要毁灭全人类。
• Among them I recognized my Scotch plaid one, burned by mistake, and I was shaken by the revelation that this ceremony of extermination had conferred upon me a certain role in my grandfather's death.
  他们烧混了，从中我认出了自己的苏格兰格子呢帽。那么，通过这个永绝于世的仪式，我在外祖父的死亡中也担任了某个角色&这个发现使我浑身颤抖。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。