extinction

美音：[ɪk'stɪŋkʃ(ə)n] 英音：[ɪk'stɪŋkʃ(ə)n]

简单释义：

n.绝种

网络灭绝；消灭；消退

变形：

复数：extinctions

完整释义：

1.(权利等的)消灭,(生物等的)灭绝;(火等的)熄灭;(法律等的)废除
2.灭绝;绝种,绝嗣;绝灭之祸
3.毁灭,消灭;消亡
4.湖泊消失
5.消退
6.〔生〕衰竭
7.【物理学】消光;自屏;衰减

例句：

His voice was solemn, as if the memory of that sudden extinction of a clan still haunted him.
他的声音很严肃，仿佛回忆自己显赫家族的骤然消亡是一件沉痛的事情。
"The top 20cm of soil is all that stands between us and extinction, " he told the Guardian.
他告诉卫报记者，“仅有20厘米的表层土阻止我们的灭绝。”
At least part of the cause of this extinction seems to have been huge volcanic eruptions that poured carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
这次生物大灭绝事件的发生似乎至少部分是因为大量的火山喷发，火山喷发将大量的二氧化碳喷到大气中。
Mammals are more complex still, but even they might be amenable to this sort of extinction modeling.
哺乳类还要复杂，不过，即使是它们都可能适合这种灭绝建模。
As is often read in the newspaper reports, wild life especially the rare species is threatened with extinction.
正如人们经常在报纸上看到报道，野生动物特别是珍稀物种濒临灭绝。
But the British did not think so, that the British era, full of mind are the massacres, occupation, or even extinction.
可是英国人却不这么想，那个时代的英国人，满脑子都是屠杀、占领，甚至灭绝。
He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction.
他听她的呼吸，她还吐着气，但是他觉得她的气息已经弱到快要停止了。
Growing our food on land that used to be intact forests and prairies is killing the planet, setting up the processes of our own extinction.
把茂密的森林和大草原开垦成农田以种植粮食作物的做法不仅正在把我们这个星球逼上绝路，也是在给我们自掘坟墓。

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