| 词汇 | decimate |
| 释义 | decimate verb[ Tusually passive ] uk /ˈdes.ɪ.meɪt/ us /ˈdes.ə.meɪt/ to kill a large number of something, or to reduce something severely: 毁灭，大量杀戮;大幅削减 Populations of endangered animals have been decimated.濒危动物的数量已经大幅减少。 Becoming and making smaller or less abridgment attenuate attenuated attenuating attenuation compress contraction dwindle dwindling ease ease someone's mindidiom ease up/off halve recede reduce reducible reduction resize trough tumble decimate | American Dictionarydecimate verb[ T ] us/ˈdes·əˌmeɪt/ to destroy large numbers of people, animals, or other creatures, or to harm something severely: Overfishing has decimated the cod population. We decimated public transportation in the 1950s and ’60s. Examples of decimatedecimate By 1971 women, who had been almost a fourth of the jute workforce, were decimated to a bare 2 per cent of the workforce. There were areas that were decimated, but they were probably few. It was a rebellion against corrupt governing elites who impoverished the state and its people and decimated public services. Year after year the pregnancies continued; the epidemics and decimating diseases came almost as regularly. Here y is the vector of filtered response values, decimated to 10-ms sampling interval. For want of works of irrigation whole populations were periodically decimated by famine. The first came with the plagues of the 1890s that decimated cattle herds. Proud armies have often been decimated, even destroyed, by epidemics; wars and thus the fate of peoples have been decided by them. This sea urchin decimates kelp beds and creates barrens, thus completely altering coastal ecosystems. Rather, it represents a mixture of productive and perceptual aspects, in that the errors originate in the productive domain but were decimated through the action of a perceptual monitor. Furthermore, the high mortality of larvae on resistant wheat would decimate the parasitoid, and probably prevent it from slowing any increase in the population of virulent midges. The 33storey hotel - which had a 77 per cent occupancy rate at the time of the blast - was decimated, its lobby covered in charred sofas, overturned tables and caved-in ceilings. In the same vein, a fading ethnic group may adopt similar priorities to encourage a high birth rate to resuscitate a community decimated by war, disease, or intermarriage. Worse still, in 1946 a sequence of summer drought and then harvest deluges decimated the grain crop, just as the ration-card system was being drastically cut back. The consequence has been disastrous as the region has suffered massive pollution of land, water, flora and fauna, which has decimated the resources on which the region survives. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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