so that the rabbit population was unlikely to be completely exterminated.
所以兔子不可能被完全消滅。
新概念英語第四冊 Lesson 17 A man-made disease

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population [,pɑpju'le??n] 詞頻1 詞根: popul
n. 人口;全體居民;特定[生物]種群;[物]布居;
?? popul人民+ation表示行為、狀態(tài)→ 全體居民,人口
"A census of population is taken every ten years."
人口普查每10年進行一次.
近義:people, demographic, demographical
completely [k?m'plitli] 詞頻1 詞根: 充滿
adv. 完全地;完整地;完全,徹底,全部,一干二凈;很,非常,充分,十分,萬分;
?? com 共同 + plete=plet滿,填滿 + ly ...地 → adv. 完全地,徹底地;完整地
"No funding will be available until the technology is completely proven."
該技術(shù)得到充分驗證后才會有撥款.
近義:absolutely, off, outright, perfectly, plumb, positively 反義:insufficiently, scarcely, scrappily, skimpily, truncately, unexhaustively
rabbit ['r?b?t] 詞頻2
n. 兔子,野兔;兔子皮毛;兔子肉;〈俚〉新手,弱手; vi. 獵兔(通常作 go rabbiting);(兔子似的)聚攏在一起;<英俚>嘮叨,喋喋不休(常與on about連用); vt. 讓…見鬼去吧;
?? 中間的兩個bb像 兔子的耳朵
"The rabbit population was decimated by the disease."
這種疾病使大批兔子死亡。
近義:coney, cony
unlikely [?n'la?kli] 詞頻5
adj. 未必的,不一定有把握的;不太可能的;不可能發(fā)生的;不像是真的;
"It is highly unlikely that she'll be late."
她遲到的可能性極小。
近義:imaginary, implausible, improbable, unbelievable, uncertain, utopical 反義:likely, attainable, ostensible, possible, practicable, practical
exterminated
v. 消滅, 根絕( exterminate的過去式和過去分詞 )
近義:finished

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