demolition
demolition 英 [ˌdemə'lɪʃn] 美 [ˌdɛməˈlɪʃən, ˌdimə-]
n. 拆除（等于demolishment）；破坏；毁坏
名词复数:demolitions
- Demolition is the act of knocking something down or totally destroying it. It's what construction crews do with sledgehammers and wrecking balls.
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- n. 拆除（等于demolishment）；破坏；毁坏
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1. My family has been displaced by urban demolition.
我家因城市房屋拆除而搬迁了。
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2. In August and September, the directors struggled to find help for expensive demolition and construction work.
在八月和九月里，主任们努力寻求帮助，好完成昂贵的拆除和建设工作。
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3. In some areas of the city, where there are fewer obvious imperatives to protect old buildings, demolition continues.
在城市的某些区域，老建筑的保护还没有提到日程表上来，破坏还在继续。
- demolition (n.) 1540s, from Old French demolition (14c.) "demolition; defeat, rout," from Latin demolitionem (nominative demolitio), noun of action from past participle stem of demoliri "tear down" (see demolish). Mencken noted demolition engineer for "house-wrecker" by 1936. Demolition derby is recorded from 1956, American English, defined by OED as "a contest in which old cars are battered into one another, the last one running being declared the winner."
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