decimate

decimate怎么读

英式音标：[ˈdesɪmeɪt]

美式音标：[ˈdɛsəˌmet]

decimate基本解释

vt. 十中抽一，取十分之一；大批杀害

decimate的意思释义

vt.

十中抽一；大批杀害；

变形

过去式：decimated过去分词：decimated现在分词：decimating第三人称单数：decimates

英英释义

v.

kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

kill in large numbers

同义词：eliminateannihilateextinguisheradicatewipe outcarry off

decimate用法及例句

双语例句

Student numbers have been decimated by cuts in grants.

助学金削减後，学生人数大大减少。

Disease has decimated the population.

疾病使大部分人死亡。

例句参考

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decimate词源

decimate

decimate: [17] Decimate is a cause célèbre amongst those who apparently believe that words should never change their meanings. The original general signification of its Latin source, the verb decimāre, was the removal or destruction of one tenth (it was derived from Latin decem ‘ten’), and it may perhaps strike the 20th century as odd to have a particular word for such an apparently abstruse operation.It does, however, arise out of two very specific procedures in the ancient world: the exaction of a tax of one tenth (for which indeed English has the ultimately related word tithe), and the practice in the Roman army of punishing a body of soldiers guilty of some crime such as mutiny by choosing one in ten of them by lot to be put to death. Modern English does not perhaps have much use for a verb with such specialized senses, but the general notion of impassive and indiscriminate slaughter implied in the Roman military use led, apparently as early as the mid- 17th century, to the modern sense ‘kill or destroy most of’.=> decimal, ten

decimate (v.)

c. 1600, in reference to the practice of punishing mutinous military units by capital execution of one in every 10, by lot; from Latin decimatus, past participle of decimare (see decimation). Killing one in ten, chosen by lots, from a rebellious city or a mutinous army was a common punishment in classical times. The word has been used (incorrectly, to the irritation of pedants) since 1660s for \"destroy a large portion of.\" Related: Decimated; decimating.

decimate相关例句

1.Many adversities decimate the fluke numbers.

许多很不利的因素可使吸虫数量减少十分之一。