单词 | 破坏性 |
释义 | 〔corrosive〕corrosive anxiety; corrosive increases in prices; a corrosive narcotics trade.破坏性的担忧;破坏性的物价上升;有害的麻醉剂买卖〔destructive〕a destructive act; a policy that is destructive to the economy.破坏性行为;危害经济的政策〔tough〕Inclined to violent or disruptive behavior; rowdy or rough:粗暴的:倾向暴力的或破坏性的行为的;野蛮的:〔blast〕A destructive or damaging influence.毁灭:毁坏性或破坏性影响〔Hunnish〕Often hunnish Barbarous; destructive. 常作 hunnish 野蛮的;破坏性的〔epiphytotic〕Of, relating to, or characterized by a sudden or abnormally destructive outbreak of a plant disease, usually over an extended geographic area.植物流行病的:关于或以植物突然病害或反常的破坏性发作为特征的,通常发生在开阔的地域〔destructive〕Causing or wreaking destruction; ruinous:破坏的,破坏性的:产生或施加破坏的;破坏的:〔outlive〕He is survived by his wife and children. Frequently, however, tosurvive is to remain alive following something potentially destructive to life: 他妻子和孩子们活得都比他长。 但是通常survive 指在经受破坏性的生命危险之后仍存活了下来: 〔weather〕Adverse or destructive atmospheric conditions, such as high winds or heavy rain:恶劣天气:恶劣的或破坏性的大气状况,如狂风暴雨:〔vicious〕Disposed to or characterized by violent or destructive behavior.See Synonyms at cruel 凶残的或者恶毒的:倾向于残忍或破坏性行为的或以此为特点的 参见 cruel〔relict〕Of or relating to something that has survived, as structures or minerals after destructive processes.残遗的:跟存活下来的东西,如破坏性过程之后的结构或矿物有关的〔windblast〕The damaging effect of air friction on a pilot ejected from a high-speed aircraft.气浪冲击:飞行员从高速飞机中受到的空气摩擦力的破坏性影响〔whirlwind〕A destructive force or thing.破坏性的力量或事物〔Sherman〕American Union general. Appointed commander of all Union troops in the West (1864), he captured Atlanta (1864) and led a destructive March to the Sea, which effectively cut the Confederacy in two.谢尔曼,威廉·特库姆塞:(1820-1891) 美国联邦军将军。他在被任命为美国联邦军西路军总司令(1864年)后攻占了亚特兰大(1864年),并进行了一次破坏性的进军,直到大西洋沿岸,有效地把南部邦联,分割成了两半〔overrun〕To spread or swarm over destructively:散步,蔓延:破坏性地扩散或群集于…上方:〔internecine〕Latin internecīvus, internecīnus [destructive] 拉丁语 internecīvus, internecīnus [破坏性的] 〔Beirut〕A place or situation characterized by ongoing, widespread, highly destructive strife:贝鲁特:具有正在进行着的大范围、高度破坏性的以冲突为特色的地点或情形:〔internecine〕In the first edition of theAmerican Heritage Dictionary 91 percent of the Usage Panel approved the use ofinternecine relating to internal struggle within a nation or organization that did not necessarily imply fatal or destructive conflict.The objection that had been overcome for most of the Panel was thatinternecine should imply such destruction because it came from the Latin wordinternecīnus, a variant ofinternecīvus, "fought to the death, murderous,” ultimately derived fromnecāre, "to kill.” Inter- in this compound is simply an intensive, supplying the notion of "all the way to" in the sense "fought to the death.”Internecine in English, first recorded in 1663, indeed meant "deadly, destructive,”but Samuel Johnson, inserting the word in his dictionary of 1755,thought thatinter- meant "mutual" and so defined it as "endeavoring mutual destruction.”This definition set the word incorrectly on its present course,and wheninternecine was further extended simply to mean "relating to internal struggle,” the original error was compounded.However, the point is that the meaning of words can be changed by mistakes and that mistaken meanings adhere to words.Only an occasional etymologist points out that the emperor's new clothes are patched.在美国经典辞书 第一版中, 百分之九十一的用法专题使用小组成员赞同internecine 与一个国家或组织内部的斗争有关, 但并不一定是致命的或有破坏性的冲突。为大多数小组成员说服的反对意见为internecine 应该暗指这种破坏, 因为它来源于拉丁词internecinus , 是internecivus 的变体,意为“战至死亡的,谋杀的”, 它最终来源于意为“杀害”的necare 。 在这个复合词中inter- 只是简单的一个强调成分, 在“战至死亡的”这个意义上加上“一直”这个概念。在英语中internecine 最早记载于1663年, 确实意味着“致死的,破坏性的”,但是塞缪尔·约翰逊在其1755年的字典中插入此词,认为inter- 意为“共同的”, 并且将它定义为“竭力造成共同破坏的”。这个定义造成此词今日用法的不准确,而且当internecine 更进一步被简单地引申为“关于内部斗争的”时, 其起源的错误就加重了。但是,重要的是词的意思被错误改变并且为错误意思所追随。只有偶尔的一个词源学家指出“皇帝的新衣服打满补丁”〔pyroligneous〕Made by the destructive distillation of wood.焦木的:通过破坏性地干馏木材而制得的〔blast〕The central meaning shared by these verbs is "to have a pernicious, destructive, or ruinous effect on something": 这些动词共有的中心含义为“对某物有害的,破坏性的或毁坏性的作用”: 〔ruinous〕Causing or apt to cause ruin; destructive.毁灭性的,破坏性的:引起毁灭的,容易引起毁灭的;有害的〔ethos〕"They cultivated a subversive alternative ethos"(Anthony Burgess)“他们培育了一种破坏性的交替的民族气质”(安东尼·伯吉斯)〔buprestid〕Any of various beetles of the family Buprestidae, which are destructive wood borers as larvae and often have a metallic red, green, or blue color.吉丁虫:吉丁虫科的昆虫,其幼虫是破坏性的树木蛀虫,常为金属色的红的、绿的或蓝的颜色〔trample〕To tread heavily or destructively:重重地或破坏性地踩:〔pickleworm〕The larva of a pyralid moth(Diaphania nitidalis) of the southern Atlantic and Gulf states of the United States, that feeds destructively on cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, and other gourds. 泡菜虫:一种螟蛾(黄瓜绢野螟 绢野螟属) 的幼虫,生长在美国南部大西洋和墨西哥湾沿岸的一些州,破坏性地蚕食黄瓜、南瓜、笋瓜和其他葫芦科植物 |
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