詞彙精選：exterminate的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
v.
消滅，滅絕，根除 [T]
例句：
They attempted to exterminate feudalism
他們要徹底消滅封建主義。
例句：
We've made great efforts to exterminate mosquitoes and flies.
我們作了很大努力來消滅蚊蠅。
二、詞義辨析：
destroy,exterminate,extinguish
這3個動詞均有“消滅”之意。destroy指通過殺戮或終止某人某物的機能，使之無用或毀滅。exterminate指大量地、成批地殺害、消滅。extinguish原義指滅火，轉義後暗示生命、希望等像火一樣地消滅、熄滅。
三、參考例句：
We must exterminate every mistake.
我們必須消除一切錯誤。
They attempted to exterminate feudalism
他們要徹底消滅封建主義。
This spray will exterminate the termites.
這種噴劑能消滅白蟻。
The new chemical will exterminate the cockroaches.
新的化學藥品將可以消滅蟑螂。
We've made great efforts to exterminate mosquitoes and flies.
我們作了很大努力來消滅蚊蠅。
Nationalist officers gave orders in many areas to exterminate the civilian population.
國民軍軍官在許多地方下令對當地老百姓斬盡殺絕。
Some people exterminate garden insects by spraying poison on the plants.
有些人在植物上噴撒毒劑以殺死花園內的昆蟲。
Much of our forefathers'blood was shed,to exterminate this vermin.
爲了消滅這些害畜，我們祖先流了多少血。
Our aim is to exterminate capitalism, obliterate it from the face of the earth and make it a thing of the past.
我們的目的就是要根除資本主義，要使它在地球上絕種，變成歷史的東西。
