raze是什么意思,raze怎么用

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📰 外刊例句

A former home to 70,000 people has been razed in many parts to rubble. 一个曾经容纳7万人居住的家园的许多区域被夷为废墟。

—— 《经济学人》

—— 《纽约时报》


📖 基本释义

[verb] completely destroy (a building, town, or other site)
[动词] 彻底摧毁(建筑物、城镇或其他地点)


💡 深入解读

Raze 是一个在拼写上与常见词 maze, haze, daze 以及小站(微信公众号:田间小站)推送过的gaze有着相同结尾的单词,同时也是一个在发音上容易与熟词 raise 相混淆的单词。该词源自拉丁语radere(刮掉、削去),16世纪40年代经古法语raser(刮掉、削去)进入英语后即用来表示“彻底摧毁、把……夷为平地”,常使用被动语态,强调将建筑物、城镇等地面以上的部分彻底抹平,使之与地面齐平,

比如:

Temporary buildings were recently razed.临时建筑最近被全部拆除了。

Years of war culminated in nothing less than a brutal razing of the city.经年的战争给这座城市带来的不亚于灭顶之灾。


📚 名著用例

After having long been in danger of my life at the hands of the village, I have been seized, with great violence and indignity, and brought a long journey on foot to Paris. On the road I have suffered a great deal. Nor is that all; my house has been destroyed— razed to the ground. 在长期冒着被村里的人杀死的危险之后我终于被抓住了,遭到了残酷的虐待和侮辱,然后被押着长途步行到了巴黎,沿途备受折磨。这还不够,我的房子也给毁掉了——夷为平地。

— 出自《英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯(Charles Dickens)创作的长篇历史小说《双城记》( A Tale of Two Cities )。》


🔍 同近义词

  • dismantle: take (a machine or structure) to pieces
  • demolish: pull or knock down (a building)
  • flatten: raze (a building or settlement) to the ground
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