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小词详解 | decimate
Mustang fighter planes decimated Germany’s flying aces.
德军的制空王牌也被“野马”战斗机尽数歼灭。
——《经济学人》The U.S., meanwhile, has a nuclear stockpile large enough to decimate entire populations.
与此同时,美国的核武器储备之多,足以杀死地球上的所有人。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 大量毁灭、大批杀死某地区的动物、植物或人
annihilate: to destroy sb/sth completely devastate: to completely destroy a place or an area raze: to completely destroy a building, town, etc. so that nothing is left