记忆方法
“exterminate”可以分解为“exter”和“minate”。记住“exter”部分意味着“外部的”，而“minate”可以联想为“minish”（缩小）。结合起来，可以想象为彻底消除或消灭外部的某些东西，就像将其缩小到不存在。
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词族 · exterminate
中文词源
exterminate 灭绝，根除
ex-, 向外。-term, 界限，终端，词源同term, terminal. 即赶到界限外面，根除。
英语词源
- exterminate (v.)
- 1540s, "drive away," from Latin exterminatus, past participle of exterminare "drive out, expel, put aside, drive beyond boundaries," also, in Late Latin "destroy," from phrase ex termine "beyond the boundary," from ex- "out of" (see ex-) + termine, ablative of termen "boundary, limit, end" (see terminus).
Meaning "destroy utterly" is from 1640s in English, a sense found in equivalent words in French and in the Vulgate; earlier in this sense was extermine (mid-15c.). Related: Exterminated; exterminating.
权威例句
- 1. A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats.
- 灭鼠花了大力气。
- 2. Some people exterminate garden insects by spraying poison on the plants.
- 有些人在植物上喷撒毒剂以杀死花园内的昆虫.
- 3. It is necessary to exterminate the post at the sawmill.
- 必须端掉锯木厂边的哨所.
- 4. This spray will exterminate the termites.
- 这种喷剂能消灭白蚁.
- 5. Vermin don't have to exterminate themselves.
- 虫豸是用不着自己杀害自己的.
词语辨析
【destroy, extinguish, exterminate】
这组词都有“消灭”的意思，其区别是：
destroy: 指通过杀戮或终止某人某物的机能，使之无用或毁灭。
extinguish: 原义指灭火，转义后暗示生命、希望等像火一样地消灭、熄灭。
exterminate: 指大量地、成批地杀害、消灭。
这组词都有“消灭”的意思，其区别是：
destroy: 指通过杀戮或终止某人某物的机能，使之无用或毁灭。
extinguish: 原义指灭火，转义后暗示生命、希望等像火一样地消灭、熄灭。
exterminate: 指大量地、成批地杀害、消灭。