詞彙精選：extinguish的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

v.

使熄滅，撲滅 [T]

例句：

It took us hours to extinguish the fires.

我們用了好幾個小時才把火撲滅。

例句：

Smoking is forbidden. Please extinguish your cigarettes.

吸菸是禁止的，請你把煙熄掉。

使破滅；使消失 [T]

例句：

The failure on the college entrance examination extinguish his faith in future.

高考的失敗使他對未來的信念破滅。

例句：

Nothing can extinguish his faith in human nature.

什麼都不能破壞他對人類本性的信仰。

二、詞義辨析：

destroy,exterminate,extinguish

這3個動詞均有“消滅”之意。destroy指通過殺戮或終止某人某物的機能，使之無用或毀滅。exterminate指大量地、成批地殺害、消滅。extinguish原義指滅火，轉義後暗示生命、希望等像火一樣地消滅、熄滅。

三、參考例句：

Please extinguish your cigarettes.

請將你們的香菸熄滅｡

Smoking is forbidden. Please extinguish your cigarettes.

吸菸是禁止的，請你把煙熄掉。

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

完全的理解有時幾乎會消滅樂趣。

Smoking is forbidden. Please extinguish your cigarette.

這裏禁止吸菸，請把您的煙熄滅。

Firefighters tried to extinguish the flames.

消防隊員奮力救火。

Don't let others extinguish your flame.

不要讓其他人熄滅了你的火焰。

They tried to extinguish the flames.

他們盡力把火撲滅。

It took us hours to extinguish the fires.

我們用了好幾個小時才把火撲滅。

Smoking is forbidden in this room. Please extinguish your cigarettes.

房間內禁止吸菸。請熄滅香菸。

Nothing could extinguish his faith in human nature.

沒有什麼能使他喪失對人性的信心。