exterminate

• vt. 消灭；根除

ex-, 向外。-term, 界限，终端，词源同term, terminal. 即赶到界限外面，根除。

1. kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many;

"Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"

2. destroy completely, as if down to the roots;

"the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"

exterminate (v.)

1540s, "drive away," from Latin exterminatus, past participle of exterminare "drive out, expel, put aside, drive beyond boundaries," also, in Late Latin "destroy," from phrase ex termine "beyond the boundary," from ex- "out of" (see ex-) + termine, ablative of termen "boundary, limit, end" (see terminus).

Meaning "destroy utterly" is from 1640s in English, a sense found in equivalent words in French and in the Vulgate; earlier in this sense was extermine (mid-15c.). Related: Exterminated; exterminating.

destroy, exterminate, extinguish

这3个动词均有"消灭"之意。

destroy： 指通过杀戮或终止某人某物的机能，使之无用或毁灭。

exterminate： 指大量地、成批地杀害、消灭。

extinguish： 原义指灭火，转义后暗示生命、希望等像火一样地消灭、熄灭。

It is only in recent years that we hear It is only in recent years that we hear the more honest argument that predators are members of the community, and that no special interest has the right to exterminate them for the sake of a benefit ,real or fancied ,to itself.

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A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats.

灭鼠花了大力气。

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Some people exterminate garden insects by spraying poison on the plants.

有些人在植物上喷撒毒剂以杀死花园内的昆虫.

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It is necessary to exterminate the post at the sawmill.

必须端掉锯木厂边的哨所.

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This spray will exterminate the termites.

这种喷剂能消灭白蚁.

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Vermin don't have to exterminate themselves.

虫豸是用不着自己杀害自己的.

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To protect their business, European farmers have started to exterminate at - risk animals and quarantine the others.

为保护他们的经济, 欧洲农场主便开始消除已处于染病状态的牲畜,检疫并隔离其他动物.

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You cannot exterminate them because from their seed comes more with greater hatred.

你们没法把他们斩尽杀绝,因为他们会播下更深的仇恨的种子.

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Much of our forefathers'blood was shed, to exterminate these vermin.

我们祖先为了除掉这些害虫,血流成河.

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Poisonous clouds, manufactured by human hands, will sink down and exterminate everything.

有毒的云雾由人的双手制造, 会沉落和消除所有一切.

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We've made great efforts to exterminate mosquitoes and flies.

我们作了很大努力来消灭蚊蝇.

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The new chemical will exterminate the cockroaches.

新的化学药品将可以消灭蟑螂.

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Their job is to exterminate rats and mice.

他们的工作是消灭鼠类.

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This poison will exterminate rats.

这毒药可以消灭老鼠.

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Woodpeckers can exterminate insect pests hiding in trees.

啄木鸟能消灭躲在树里的害虫.

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Back and forth go back and forth with strange treasure box, end exterminate two spiders.

与奇怪的宝箱来回周旋, 最终消灭两只蜘蛛.

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