2、Decimate
第二位:Decimate
Decimation was a Roman punishment where one in ten men was killed. So when something is decimated, it implies that ten percent of it is destroyed. “Devastate” is almost certainly a better word for most usages and yet: “New York City budget will decimate libraries”.
“Decimation”曾用来形容古罗马的一项刑罚:十个人中死一个。所以当 “decimate”用于形容一件事情时,它意味着毁灭了十分之一的程度。“纽约市的预算将会毁掉图书馆”中的“decimate毁掉”一词用“Devastate”更合适。所以相对来说,“Devastate”更常用。
1、 Ultimate
1、 第一位:Ultimate
From the Latin, this means the last in a list of items. But it’s so widely used to indicate the best; a google search for “ultimate phone” gives 307 million hits. I’d argue that the last phone has yet to be made. This is probably the most misused word on the Internet; type “ultimate” into google and thousands of hits come up, pretty much all of them using it as “the best”. However, for a change, this is the ultimate entry in this list.
在拉丁语中,它用于表示列表中的最后一项,但却经常被用来形容“最好的”。在谷歌引擎上搜索“ultimate phone最好的电话”的次数高达30700万。对此我坚持认为是“最后一通电话”。该词可能是网上误用最多的单词了。在谷歌中输入“ultimate”,会出现上千个搜索结果,但大多数都把它用作“最好的”。不过,换个话题说,这的确是本文最后一个词目了。
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