英
['des?me?t]
美
['des?me?t]
- v. 毀掉大部分；大量殺死；使驟減
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decimate的英文翻譯是什么意思，詞典釋義與在線(xiàn)翻譯：
英英釋義
Verb:
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kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
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kill in large numbers;
"the plague wiped out an entire population"
decimate的用法和樣例：
例句
- Student numbers have been decimated by cuts in grants.
助學(xué)金削減後，學(xué)生人數大大減少。 - Disease has decimated the population.
疾病使大部分人死亡。
經(jīng)典引文
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All my parents' friends, all my friends' brothers were getting killed. Our circle was decimated.
出自： R. Lehmann -
Plague decimated Moscow in 1771.
出自： V. Cronin
