| 单词 |
over-exploit |
| 释义 |
over-exˈploit, v.
[over- 27.]
trans. To exploit excessively. So ˌover-exploiˈtation; over-exˈploited ppl. a.
1922W. Schlich Man. Forestry (ed. 4) I. 273 The more accessible areas of the merchantable forests have been considerably over-exploited in the past. 1952G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xi. 296 The mines were overexploited in the fifth century. By the middle of the following century only old workings were open. 1957Manvell & Huntley Film Music iv. 191 Like all good ideas, they tend to be over-exploited to their own detriment. 1961Carolina Q. Spring 18 It seems that only in today's Southern fiction does Tobacco Road..continue to live—but only as a weary, overexploited phantom. Ibid. 21 This legend..well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century. 1963Times 6 Feb. 8/7 U. P. Gerasimov and E. K. Fedorov, commenting on over-exploitation of fisheries, alleged that trawlers..‘are ploughing the seas near African and Asian shores in search of fish’. 1964V. J. Chapman Coastal Vegetation vi. 137 The question has been asked whether such dunes are the result of man's negligence or over-exploitation. 1970New Scientist 3 Dec. 374/1 Improved international cooperation should limit overexploitation of important [fish] stocks. 1977Sci. Amer. May 26/1 The floods of 1969 in Tunisia replenished all the reservoirs that up to then had been described as overexploited. |
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