| 词汇 | decimated |
| 释义 | decimated past simple and past participle ofdecimate 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 damp dwindling ease ease someone's mindidiom ease up/off fall away reducible reduction resize retreat rightsize telescope tumble Examples of decimateddecimated In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. 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. 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. 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. 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. Wealth differentiation was tempered by periodic drought and disease episodes, which uniformly decimated herds in a resource management regime that assured access to all community members. Following that, with the economics of the countryside prevailing, the hare population was decimated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Industry has been decimated or allowed to decay. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English 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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