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Decimate
What you think it means: To destroy or annihilate你以為單詞的含義是：毀壞或擊敗。
What it really means: To destroy ten percent。單詞的真正含義是：10%毀壞。
This one is really goofy and one day this won’t be true. For the time being, decimate actually means removing only ten percent of something. If you know a little bit about words it’s not difficult to figure out. The prefix “dec” means ten. However, the traditional definition of this word is antiquated and it’ll probably be changed eventually. Until then, it’s technically correct to use a word like exterminate or annihilate instead。
這個(gè)單詞有點(diǎn)別扭，或許以后就沒人用了。不過現(xiàn)在而言，decimate是指“只抽取某事物的10%”。如果你稍微了解一點(diǎn)英語構(gòu)詞法的話，這就不難理解了。它的前綴“dec”就是“十”的意思。不過，這個(gè)單詞的傳統(tǒng)定義比較古舊，估計(jì)以后會(huì)有所改變。但在那之前，還是使用exterminate(鏟除)或annihilate(殲滅)替代吧。
Decimate
What you think it means: To destroy or annihilate你以為單詞的含義是：毀壞或擊敗。
What it really means: To destroy ten percent。單詞的真正含義是：10%毀壞。
This one is really goofy and one day this won’t be true. For the time being, decimate actually means removing only ten percent of something. If you know a little bit about words it’s not difficult to figure out. The prefix “dec” means ten. However, the traditional definition of this word is antiquated and it’ll probably be changed eventually. Until then, it’s technically correct to use a word like exterminate or annihilate instead。
這個(gè)單詞有點(diǎn)別扭，或許以后就沒人用了。不過現(xiàn)在而言，decimate是指“只抽取某事物的10%”。如果你稍微了解一點(diǎn)英語構(gòu)詞法的話，這就不難理解了。它的前綴“dec”就是“十”的意思。不過，這個(gè)單詞的傳統(tǒng)定義比較古舊，估計(jì)以后會(huì)有所改變。但在那之前，還是使用exterminate(鏟除)或annihilate(殲滅)替代吧。