decimate

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变形

过去式：decimated过去分词：decimated现在分词：decimating第三人称单数：decimates

英英释义

decimate[ 'desimeit ]

kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

kill in large numbers

同义词：eliminateannihilateextinguisheradicatewipe outcarry off

用法：

双语例句

Student numbers have been decimated by cuts in grants.
助学金削减後，学生人数大大减少。

Disease has decimated the population.
疾病使大部分人死亡。

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英语词源：

decimate

decimate: [17] Decimate is a cause célèbre amongst those who apparently believe that words should never change their meanings. The original general signification of its Latin source, the verb decimāre, was the removal or destruction of one tenth (it was derived from Latin decem ‘ten’), and it may perhaps strike the 20th century as odd to have a particular word for such an apparently abstruse operation.It does, however, arise out of two very specific procedures in the ancient world: the exaction of a tax of one tenth (for which indeed English has the ultimately related word tithe), and the practice in the Roman army of punishing a body of soldiers guilty of some crime such as mutiny by choosing one in ten of them by lot to be put to death. Modern English does not perhaps have much use for a verb with such specialized senses, but the general notion of impassive and indiscriminate slaughter implied in the Roman military use led, apparently as early as the mid- 17th century, to the modern sense ‘kill or destroy most of’.=> decimal, ten

decimate (v.)

c. 1600, in reference to the practice of punishing mutinous military units by capital execution of one in every 10, by lot; from Latin decimatus, past participle of decimare (see decimation). Killing one in ten, chosen by lots, from a rebellious city or a mutinous army was a common punishment in classical times. The word has been used (incorrectly, to the irritation of pedants) since 1660s for "destroy a large portion of." Related: Decimated; decimating.

造句：

1. Many adversities decimate the fluke numbers.

许多很不利的因素可使吸虫数量减少十分之一。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

2. Her range of weaponry could easily decimate any convoy she encountered.

她强大的武器装备可以轻易地让任何和她遭遇的护航舰队灰飞烟灭。

-- 来源 -- www.qxwar.com

3. decimate a regiment

抽杀一个军团十分之一的人

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

4. By the late 1970s pelts were $ 500 each, and the fur industry, logging and development had combined to decimate the lynx in Colorado.

到了20世纪70年代后期，毛皮的价格升为每张500美元，毛皮业、伐木业和开发产业一起，导致了科州山猫被大批捕杀。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

5. decimate carloads

十车货物中取一车的税收

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

6. However, according to what we have heard, the actions Beijing municipal government is about to take will decimate not only the large breed dogs but many small ones only because they exceed the one family one dog quota.

但是,根据什麽我们听见了,行动市政府将采取的北京将消灭不仅大养殖狗但许多小部分只因为他们超出□一份家庭一个狗配额。

-- 来源 -- 网友提供