Extinct
[ɪk'stɪŋkt;ek-] or [ɪk'stɪŋkt]
解释:
(adj.) (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive; 'an extinct volcano' .
(adj.) being out or having grown cold; 'threw his extinct cigarette into the stream'; 'the fire is out' .
(adj.) no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives; 'an extinct species of fish'; 'an extinct royal family'; 'extinct laws and customs' .
手打:马吉--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.
(a.) Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.
(v. t.) To cause to be extinct.
埃尔顿校对
同义词及近义词:
a. [1]. Extinguished, quenched, put out.[2]. Ended, terminated, closed, brought to an end, no longer existing.
柏妮丝手打
解释:
adj. put out: extinguished: no longer existing: dead.—adj. Extinct′ed extinguished.—ns. Extincteur (eks-tang′té»? eks-tingk′té»?/span>—see Extinguisher); Extinc′tion a quenching or destroying: destruction: suppression.—adj. Extinct′ive tending to extinguish.—n. Extinct′ure (Shak.) extinction.
整理:威尔伯
例句:
- Melnos is an extinct volcano, and this is the crater. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The great ox, or aurochs, is now extinct, but it survived in the German forests up to the time of the Roman Empire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Unhappily, that expectation was now extinct within her for ever. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- But they are an extinct tribe that never existed. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- What course was taken to supply that assembly, when any noble family became extinct? 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Clym hastily put together the logs on the hearth, raked abroad the embers, which were scarcely yet extinct, and blew up a flame with the bellows. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The violence of our party debates about the new constitution seems much abated, indeed almost extinct, and we are getting fast into good order. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Surely death is not death, and humanity is not extinct; but merely passed into other shapes, unsubjected to our perceptions. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- True, at first, I hesitated about establishing a colony in the crater of an extinct volcano, for one would never know when it would break out again. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- So that the number of intermediate and transitional links, between all living and extinct species, must have been inconceivably great. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- All was silence and darkness: the roaring, rushing crowd all vanished and gone--the damps, as well as the incipient fire, extinct and forgotten. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Brigandism is not yet extinct, whatever you English may think. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- It was a practice well known on Egdon at that date, and one that is not quite extinct at the present day. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- But hope was not yet extinct. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- The Museum had not existed for a hundred years before its scientific energy was extinct. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The old comedy was almost extinct; the new had not yet arisen. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- A similar variation in structure had characterized a species of extinct ruminant in In dia. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- An extinct volcano perhaps. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The now extinct Tasmanian language is little known. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Reclined at length on a couch, in her new apartment, Fanny's spirits appeared so much improved as to encourage hopes which had become extinct. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- With the giraffe, the continued preservation of the individuals of some extinct high-reaching ruminant, which had the longest necks, legs, etc. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- A kind of stupor followed my fainting; my senses were alive, but memory was extinct. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- As the individual sickens and dies, so certain species become rare and extinct. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- My dear child, the volcano is as extinct as the dodo. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Thus, we can account for the fact that all organisms, recent and extinct, are included under a few great orders and under still fewer classes. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- We see the same law in this author's restorations of the extinct and gigantic birds of New Zealand. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The proportional numbers of its inhabitants will almost immediately undergo a change, and some species will probably become extinct. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- I don't believe this crater is an extinct one. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- When they reached South America, they found the giant sloth (the _Megatherium_), the glyptodon, and many other extinct creatures, still flourishing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
整理:威尔伯