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

• Famine decimated the population. and a large ingredient of hunger make, too.
  饥饿使人口大批死亡。以及饥饿会使食欲大增。
• 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。
• Crops can be all too easily decimated by unchecked depredations by deer
  任由鹿糟蹋会很容易把庄稼都毁了。
• The current environmental stresses on oysters may in fact be partially responsible for recent outbreaks of disease that have already decimated many eastern oyster beds.
  当前环境对牡蛎带来的压力实际上也许在一定程度上与近期疾病的爆发导致很多东岸牡蛎床的大规模破坏有关。
• Slumping volumes and prices on the mainland have decimated the sector.
  内地市场低迷的交易量和价格已重创这一行业。
• The plague decimated the Emperor Justinian's tax-base, undermining his ability to battle the Vandals and the Goths and effectively ended the chance of uniting the Western and Eastern Roman Empires.
  这场瘟疫摧毁了查士丁尼大帝的税收基础，削弱了他对汪达尔人和哥特人的进攻，从而阻碍了东西罗马帝国的合并。
• They did not notice the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month.
  那个月里，霍乱正在巴黎流行，死亡惨重，他们全不在意。
• He came into a company [ Fiat] whose reputation was tarnished and whose brand equity had been decimated.
  当他接管菲亚特的时候，菲亚特的名声已经受损，而且品牌资产大幅下跌。
• Japanese military might must be decimated as a fighting force before its threat to civilization is removed.
  日本之武力，必须予以彻底摧毁，使其不复能作战，始可解除日本对于文明之威胁。
• 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。