decimated

英 [ˈdesɪmeɪtɪd]

美 [ˈdesɪmeɪtɪd]

v.  大量毁灭，大批杀死(某地区的动物、植物或人); 严重破坏; 大大削弱
decimate的过去分词和过去式

过去式：decimated　过去分词：decimated　

BNC.41613 / COCA.29563

柯林斯词典

• VERB 大批杀死;大量毁灭
  Todecimatesomething such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
  1. The pollution could decimate the river's thriving population of kingfishers...
     污染可能会造成河边大量繁殖的翠鸟大批死亡。
  2. British forces in the Caribbean were being decimated by disease.
     加勒比海地区的英国部队有大批的人病死。
• VERB 严重削弱，大幅缩减(系统或机构)
  Todecimatea system or organization means to reduce its size and effectiveness greatly.
  1. ...a recession which decimated the nation's manufacturing industry.
     使该国制造业元气大伤的经济衰退

双语例句

• The slowdown is blamed partly on unusually warm weather, a prolonged drought that decimated farm inventories and sent corn and soybean prices to new highs.
  经济放缓部分归咎于异常温暖的天气，持久干旱使得农场库存大幅下降，同时将玉米和大豆价格推至新高。
• Tobacco used to be the country's major foreign currency earner, but consecutive years of drought and President Robert Mugabe's chaotic land reforms have decimated farming.
  烟草过去是津巴布韦主要的创汇产品，但是，连续多年的旱灾及罗伯特·穆加贝总统开展的混乱的土地改革，对烟草耕种造成了很大的破坏。
• Apart from foreign exchange and a decimated unit for rates and credit trading, almost all fixed income businesses will be shut down.
  除了外汇和一个大幅缩小的利率和信贷交易部门，几乎所有固定收益产品业务都将被关闭。
• Drought in the 1970s and the "ivory wars" of the 1980s decimated the population.
  20世纪70年代的干旱和80年代的“象牙战争”使大象数量锐减。
• They also decimated the population of Earth as part of their plan to reduce it to more manageable numbers.
  他们也大量的残杀了地球上的人口，作为他们计划的一部分就是去减少人口的数量已达到更好控制的目的。
• And populations in small, isolated habitats are unlikely to be replenished once decimated by outbreaks of fire or other catastrophes.
  一旦突然发生火灾或因其它灾难而大批死亡，栖息地少而孤立的种群将很难恢复。
• Its population was decimated in the past century by commercial fishing and dams that sealed off its migratory spawning routes.
  上世纪，商业性捕鱼和阻挡洄游产卵路线的水坝建设导致其数量骤减。
• They loaded the folders onto the rear of a bicycle rickshaw and walked them out of the decimated town.
  他们将这些资料安放在一辆人力三轮车后面，走出了这座已经被毁得差不多的城镇。
• British forces in the Caribbean were being decimated by disease.
  加勒比海地区的英国部队有大批的人病死。
• Don McCullin recorded the destruction of lives and families decimated by HIV/ AIDS in South Africa and Zambia.
  DonMcCullin记录了南非和赞比亚遭受艾滋病毒/艾滋病破坏的生活和家庭。