so that the rabbit population was unlikely to be completely exterminated.
所以兔子不可能被完全消灭。
新概念英语第四册 Lesson 17 A man-made disease

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population [,pɑpju'leʃən] 词频1 词根: popul
n. 人口;全体居民;特定[生物]种群;[物]布居;
💡 popul人民+ation表示行为、状态→ 全体居民,人口
"A census of population is taken every ten years."
人口普查每10年进行一次.
近义:people, demographic, demographical
completely [kəm'plitli] 词频1 词根: 充满
adv. 完全地;完整地;完全,彻底,全部,一干二净;很,非常,充分,十分,万分;
💡 com 共同 + plete=plet满,填满 + ly ...地 → adv. 完全地,彻底地;完整地
"No funding will be available until the technology is completely proven."
该技术得到充分验证后才会有拨款.
近义:absolutely, off, outright, perfectly, plumb, positively 反义:insufficiently, scarcely, scrappily, skimpily, truncately, unexhaustively
rabbit ['ræbɪt] 词频2
n. 兔子,野兔;兔子皮毛;兔子肉;〈俚〉新手,弱手; vi. 猎兔(通常作 go rabbiting);(兔子似的)聚拢在一起;<英俚>唠叨,喋喋不休(常与on about连用); vt. 让…见鬼去吧;
💡 中间的两个bb像 兔子的耳朵
"The rabbit population was decimated by the disease."
这种疾病使大批兔子死亡。
近义:coney, cony
unlikely [ʌn'laɪkli] 词频5
adj. 未必的,不一定有把握的;不太可能的;不可能发生的;不像是真的;
"It is highly unlikely that she'll be late."
她迟到的可能性极小。
近义:imaginary, implausible, improbable, unbelievable, uncertain, utopical 反义:likely, attainable, ostensible, possible, practicable, practical
exterminated
v. 消灭, 根绝( exterminate的过去式和过去分词 )
近义:finished

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