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
- 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。 - 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。 - Incapable of extermination or extirpation.
不能够被消灭或者根除。 - Li's itch for extermination was even more unfavorable to the Society of God Worshipers.
而李的急于“进剿”对拜上帝会恐更为不利。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。