Extinction
[ɪk'stɪŋ(k)ʃ(ə)n;ek-] or [ɪk'stɪŋkʃən]
解释:
(noun.) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning; 'the extinction of the lights'.
(noun.) a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus.
(noun.) complete annihilation; 'they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs'.
(noun.) the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation.
(noun.) no longer in existence; 'the extinction of a species'.
(noun.) no longer active; extinguished; 'the extinction of the volcano'.
克利夫顿录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.
(n.) State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim.
手打:柯尔斯顿
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Extinguishment.[2]. Destruction, annihilation, extirpation, extermination, excision, abolition, abolishment.
整理:辛克莱
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Destruction, stifling, suffocation, death, cessation, annihilation,obsolescence
ANT:Origination, inception, planting, birth, fife, course, operation, action,exercise, prosperity, continuance, survival
校对:内奥米
娱乐性解释：
n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
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例句:
- But before extinction overtook them, even the Neanderthalers learnt much and went far. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Must you ever go on down the ages to your final extinction but little above the plane of the dumb brutes that serve you! 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Therefore, the utter extinction of a group is generally, as we have seen, a slower process than its production. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- But we have already seen how it entails extinction; and how largely extinction has acted in the world's history, geology plainly declares. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- A blaze of love, and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- There has been much less extinction of the forms of life which once connected fishes with Batrachians. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The moon and stars were closed up by cloud and rain to the degree of extinction. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The extinction of scientific and of all other learning seemed imminent. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The sabre-toothed tiger was diminishing towards extinction. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Thus extinction and natural selection go hand in hand. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- This is suggested by flame, simmering liquids, the excitement of heat by motion, the extinction of fire by compression, etc. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- In this last cause tending to bring about extinction there was a mysterious element. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- In the war of extermination that was ever before the great naturalist's eye in South America, what is it that favors a species' survival or determine s its extinction? 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- A broken or interrupted range may often be accounted for by the extinction of the species in the intermediate regions. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The extinction of species has been involved in the most gratuitous mystery. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
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