词汇精选：exterminate的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

v.

消灭，灭绝，根除 [T]

例句：

They attempted to exterminate feudalism

他们要彻底消灭封建主义。

例句：

We've made great efforts to exterminate mosquitoes and flies.

我们作了很大努力来消灭蚊蝇。

二、词义辨析：

destroy,exterminate,extinguish

这3个动词均有“消灭”之意。destroy指通过杀戮或终止某人某物的机能，使之无用或毁灭。exterminate指大量地、成批地杀害、消灭。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。

三、参考例句：

We must exterminate every mistake.

我们必须消除一切错误。

They attempted to exterminate feudalism

他们要彻底消灭封建主义。

This spray will exterminate the termites.

这种喷剂能消灭白蚁。

The new chemical will exterminate the cockroaches.

新的化学药品将可以消灭蟑螂。

We've made great efforts to exterminate mosquitoes and flies.

我们作了很大努力来消灭蚊蝇。

Nationalist officers gave orders in many areas to exterminate the civilian population.

国民军军官在许多地方下令对当地老百姓斩尽杀绝。

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。

Much of our forefathers'blood was shed,to exterminate this vermin.

为了消灭这些害畜，我们祖先流了多少血。

Our aim is to exterminate capitalism, obliterate it from the face of the earth and make it a thing of the past.

我们的目的就是要根除资本主义，要使它在地球上绝种，变成历史的东西。