extinction
美 [ɪkˈstɪŋkʃ(ə)n] 
英 [ɪk'stɪŋkʃ(ə)n]
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复数：extinctions 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | （植物、动物、生活方式等的）灭绝，绝种，消亡a situation in which a plant, an animal, a way of life, etc. stops existing |
| a tribe threatened with extinction/in danger of extinction 面临消亡威胁╱有消亡危险的部落 |
| The mountain gorilla is on the verge of extinction . 居住在山区的大猩猩已濒临灭绝。 |
| We know of several mass extinctions in the earth's history. 我们知道地球历史上出现过几次大规模的灭绝。 |
英汉解释
n. | 1. (权利等的)消灭,(生物等的)灭绝;(火等的)熄灭;(法律等的)废除 |
英英解释
例句
And I worked on this Permian extinction, camping by this Boer graveyard for months at a time.
当时我在研究二叠纪生物灭绝事件，每次都在波尔的墓地露营好几个月。
If there were a single, remediable cause of the honeybee die-off, the question of possible extinction would lose much of its force.
如果导致蜜蜂消亡是一个单一的、可补救的原因，那么蜜蜂可能灭绝这个问题就将失去很多影响力。
While Apple did make Macs, the company had been losing sales for years and was commonly considered to be on the verge of extinction.
尽管苹果开始生产Mac，但是那时候苹果公司的销售额逐年减少，而且被普遍认为处于濒临破产的边缘。
All of this adds up to extinction of the human species ahead, unless a new direction is taken and a new era is born.
所有这一切，都增加了人类物种在前方的灭绝，除非有一个新方向启动而诞生新的时代。
As is often the case, humans are the primary cause of extinction.
通常情况下，人类是物种灭绝的主要原因。
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。
Except in those cases in which a species is driven to extinction, the Earth's ability to shrug such things off is often underestimated.
除了那些物种走向灭绝的情况，地球把这类问题从肩上抖掉的能力被经常性的低估了。
Now seems to have been aware of the extinction of an animal hazards.
现在人们似乎还没有意识到一种动物的灭绝的危害。
In a non-codependent system, there cannot be extinction of the whole as no species is dependent upon any other species for its existence.
在一个非相互依赖系统，那里不会有整体的灭绝因为没有物种依赖任何其它物种维生。
Markets were supposed to shut down bad ideas in a gradual evolutionary process; what happened in 2008 was more like a mass extinction.
市场本应在一种逐渐演化的过程中摒弃不好的想法；而2008年发生的一切却更像是大规模灭绝。
So it seems to me that a cosmic event of this type is a better explanation for the mass extinction of these animals.
以我所见因此这个类型一个宇宙事件是这些动物的许多绝种的一个更好的解释。
If governments do not crack down on poaching and eliminate the demand for tiger products, the tiger will BE stalked to extinction, says WWF.
WWF说，如果有关政府不打击偷猎并根除对虎制品的需求，老虎将悄无声息地招致灭绝。
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。
But then, while no one wants to think of extinction, the word is far less of an abstraction in Hawaii than in other places.
但是然而，虽然没有人去想过灭绝，这个词在其他地方的抽象概念远远低于在夏威夷。
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。
Because, our resources are wired, if we still do a bit of savings do not know, we are faced with extinction.
因为，我们的资源是有线的，如果我们依旧是这样一点也不知道节约，我们终究要面临灭亡。
Meanwhile, a new documentary shows that global warming was not always a bad thing as it once saved early man from extinction.
与此同时，一部新的纪录片显示，全球变暖并不总是那么不好的事情，因为它曾经挽救了濒临灭绝的早期人类。
Together these data make it clear that cataclysmic impact as a cause of mass extinction was the exception, not the rule.
综合这些资讯，我们很明确知道肇因于灾难性撞击的大规模灭绝，是例外而非通则。
Masayuki Komatsu, who once described Minke whales as "the cockroaches of the ocean, " said the Japanese were eating tuna into extinction.
曾说小须鲸是“海洋中的蟑螂”的小松正行称日本国民已经快把金枪鱼吃到灭绝了。
As is often read in the newspaper, wild life especially the rare species is threatened with extinction.
正如同我们经常在报纸上读到的：野生动物尤其是珍稀物种正面临着灭绝的危险。
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。
Scientists discovered the snails a year and a half later, after they had already pushed some native species close to extinction.
一年半之后，科学家发现了这种蜗牛，但那时它们已经快把当地一些物种推向灭绝的边缘。
"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。”
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。
They wiped out our species to the point of extinction, keeping a few survivors locked up in cages to be examined and taunted.
把人类逼向灭绝的边缘，只留下少许算在笼子里做研究和嘲弄。
To allow the extinction of any particular species could prove to be a fatal mistake to the long-term survival of mankind.
允许任何特定一种物种灭绝，对于人类长远的生存都将成为一个致命的错误。
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。
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。
So I shelved an American project that I had been working on, and decided to make a film in Thailand about this issue of extinction.
所以我搁置了一个正在做的美国项目，打算做一个关于泰国种族灭绝问题的电影。
The final extinction of that vast people which had been in eruption for twenty-six years--such was the dream.
总之，他们的梦想就是要扑灭这个爆发了二十六年的强大民族。
There had been, long before Marx, doctrines teaching the total war leading to the radical extinction or enslavement of the defeated.
在马克思主义出现之前很久，就一直存在着传授各种彻底灭绝或奴役战败者的全面战争的学说。
Nomi is still recovering from health issues that are the result of how polarity has pressed his dream towards extinction rather than life.
Nomi仍在恢复健康中，那是极性将其梦想推入绝灭而不是生存的结果。
Article 270 The law of the flag State of the ship shall apply to the acquisition, transfer and extinction of the ownership of the ship.
第二百七十条船舶所有权的取得、转让和消灭，适用船旗国法律。
Writing in the journal, Whiteside said the latest research was the "strongest case for a volcanic cause of a mass extinction to date" .
怀特塞德女士在杂志中写道，他们最新的研究“为火山喷发导致大规模物种灭绝提供了最强有力的依据”。
If we continue, we are looking at a really high risk of extinction for some of these species within the next few decades.
如果我们继续这样做，那在未来几十年内，我们将看到，其中某些种类的鲨鱼极有可能灭绝。
But also they were outlaws, enemies, untouchables , doomed with absolute certainty to extinction within a year or two.
可他们是歹徒，是敌人，是不能挨不可碰的危险分子，命定在一两年内给人消灭干净。
Soon the sea fox, which had already been saved from extinction once, was doomed.
不久，海狐这种已经从“濒危”中解脱出来的生物被毁灭了。
The Spanish branch of the family is now close to extinction, as Charles II has failed to produce an heir, among his other problems.
由于问题多多的查尔斯二世绝嗣，西班牙哈布斯堡王室的延续面临着窘境。
Society should make efforts to save endangered species only if the potential extinction of those species is the result of human activities.
社会应该努力拯救濒危物种，只要这些物种的灭绝是人类活动的结果。
Poor bird tree, please do not cry, you can be a long arm out, is not it? May be we are facing extinction!
鸟可怜的大树，请不要哭泣，您的手臂可以再长出来的，不是吗？可我们正面临的灭绝！
