解释
- vt. 消灭；根除
※ 提供单词"exterminate"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。
中文词源
exterminate 灭绝，根除
ex-, 向外。-term, 界限，终端，词源同term, terminal. 即赶到界限外面，根除。
英文词源
- 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.
例句和用法
- 1. A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats.
- 灭鼠花了大力气。
- 2. 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.
- 3. It is necessary to exterminate the post at the sawmill.
- 必须端掉锯木厂边的哨所.
- 4. This spray will exterminate the termites.
- 这种喷剂能消灭白蚁.
- 5. Vermin don't have to exterminate themselves.
- 虫豸是用不着自己杀害自己的.
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