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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - All door and window is sealed for the extermination of mosquito.
为了消灭蚊子，所有的门窗都被封闭起来了。 - Children of fourteen were considered "independent" for purposes of transport to the extermination camps.
为了把犹太人运往灭绝集中营，14岁的儿童就被视做“独立”的人。 - 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。 - The best-known destination for dark tourism is the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz in Poland.
波兰的纳粹奥斯威辛集中营是最有名的黑色旅游地点。