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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But television has not gone the way of the music business, which was decimated by the web.
  然而，电视没有像音乐产业那样被网络摧毁。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Second, if it is claimed that acceleration in globalisation has decimated union membership, that is dubious.
  其次，如果有人声称，全球化加速大量减少了工会会员的数量，那这种观点也是可疑的。