decimated vt. 摧毁;大幅度下降(decimate的过去式及过去分词)
- Long, long ago, the plague descended on that city and decimated its population.
很久以前,瘟疫突然袭击了那个城市,使居民大批死亡。 - The results of inclining-prevention drilling assembly with stabilizers are not so ideal during drilling decimated formations.
在易斜地层钻进时,带扶正器的防斜钻具组合的防科效果往往不甚理想。 - In the savage fighting, Germany itself was laid waste, the towns and countryside were devastated and ravished, the people decimated.
在这次野蛮的战争中,德国全境一片荒凉,城乡处处残垣断壁,惨遭蹂躏,生灵涂炭,十室九空。
Decimate \Dec"i*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Decimated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Decimating}.] [L. decimatus, p. p. of decimare to
decimate (in senses 1 & 2), fr. decimus tenth. See
{Decimal}.]
1. To take the tenth part of; to tithe. --Johnson.
2. To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of;
as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
--Macaulay.
3. To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army
in battle; to decimate a people by disease.