exterminate
exterminate 英 [ɪkˈstɜ:mɪneɪt] 美 [ɪkˈstɜrmɪneɪt]
vt. 消灭；根除
进行时:exterminating 过去式:exterminated 过去分词:exterminated 第三人称单数:exterminates 名词复数:exterminates
- If your house becomes infested with cockroaches, mice, or even ants, you might have to exterminate them. It is certainly not a pleasant process, but often quite necessary.
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- vt. 消灭；根除
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1. As a human being, you need to be craftier than cockroaches and use an assortment of ways to exterminate them.
作为人类，你需要比小强狡猾，用各种不同方法来消灭他们。
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2. Boy, if the Chinese only had 100 good pursuit planes and 100 fair pilots, they'd exterminate the Jap air force!
孩子，如果中国有100架好驱逐机和100名优秀飞行员，他们就会消灭日本空军。
- 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).
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