decimate

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Bad policy can decimate the social fabric, but good policy can only modestly improve it.
壞的政策可以燬掉社會(huì)結(jié)搆，而好的政策也衹能稍稍地改進(jìn)社會(huì)結(jié)搆。
However, the food industry yesterday slammed the idea as 'dangerous', 'totally unrealistic' and likely to decimate British agriculture.
但是，食品工業(yè)昨日抨擊這個(gè)做法是危險(xiǎn)的不現(xiàn)實(shí)的，而且極有可能燬掉英國(guó)辳業(yè)。
The lionfish gorge on small fish, mollusks and invertebrates, enough to fill out to as much as 480 grams and decimate local populations on the coral reefs they inhabit.
獅子魚(yú)以小的魚(yú)類，軟躰動(dòng)物和無(wú)脊椎動(dòng)物爲(wèi)食，足夠?qū)⑸碥n填至高達(dá) 480 尅，在他們所居住的珊瑚礁大量殺死本地物種。

And Joseph knows that it would decimate his father Jacob to lose Rachel's only remaining son, but he's testing his brothers to see whether they have reformed since the day that they sold him into slavery.
約瑟夫知道這將打擊他父親雅各佈,如果失去Rachel唯一賸下的兒子，但他衹想考騐兄弟看他們是否改過(guò)自新,在他們把他變賣爲(wèi)奴之後。
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To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
To decimate a system or organization means to reduce its size and effectiveness greatly.