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To exterminate a kind of person or animal is to kill so many of them that that kind is gone — not one fight, not a few deaths, but the aim that none are left.
To exterminate a kind of person or animal exterminate一群人或一群動物 is to kill so many of them是指殺掉非常多 that that kind is gone多到這一群徹底消失 not one fight不是一場打鬥 not a few deaths也不是死了幾個 but the aim that none are left而是目標是一個都不留
About people this is a very heavy word, the sort you meet in history when a group is hunted down so it will disappear. About rats, ants, or , English speakers use it more lightly: the pest-control person comes to exterminate the bugs.
About people用在人身上 this is a very heavy word這是個很沉重的詞 the sort you meet in history是你在歷史裡會看到的那種 when a group is hunted down一個群體被獵殺追捕 so it will disappear直到消失 About rats, ants, or cockroaches用在老鼠、螞蟻或蟑螂身上 English speakers use it more lightly英文使用者用得比較輕鬆 the pest-control person害蟲防治的人 comes to exterminate the bugs會來exterminate這些蟲
Though actually, even there the picture is the same: wipe them out, do not just chase a few away. It sounds official and a little old; in everyday talk about people, many would pick a plainer, less report-like word, because this one already feels like a dark file or a news report.
Though actually不過其實 even there the picture is the same就算是這樣，畫面還是一樣的 wipe them out徹底清除 do not just chase a few away而不是只是趕走幾隻 It sounds official and a little old這個詞聽起來很正式，也有點老派 in everyday talk about people日常談到人的時候 many would pick a plainer, less report-like word很多人會選一個更平白、不那麼像報告的詞 because this one already feels like a dark file or a news report因為這個詞已經給人一種黑暗檔案或新聞報導的感覺
組成From Latin exterminātus, from exterminō: ex- “thoroughly” + terminō “to finish or end,” from terminus “limit, end.”
同家族的字
- terminatesame Latin terminus “end”: to bring something to an end
- terminalsame root: the end point
- terminusthe Latin word kept in English for an end or limit
- exterminationthe noun for this killing
- exterminatorthe person (or company) who does it
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
exterminateverb/ɛkˈstəː.mɪ.neɪt/
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To kill or otherwise permanently eliminate all of (a population, often of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.
- We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.
- The natives everywhere eat their [sc. cuscuses] flesh, and as their motions are so slow, easily catch them by climbing; so that it is wonderful they have not been exterminated. It may be, however, that their dense woolly fur protects them from birds of prey, and the islands they live in are too thinly inhabited for man to be able to exterminate them.
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To bring a definite end to; to finish completely.
- The public school failed to exterminate truancy.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。