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单词 demolition
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During demolition work near Blackfriars he found two complete and forgotten prison cells.The postwar years had witnessed widespread demolition of historic buildings.This will account for an increased proportion of work as people consider options other than total demolition.The city centre is still fenced off while demolition work continues.We had to go around a tunnel because a demolition charge had collapsed the roof.The enforcers were allegedly taken on by a building firm to speed up a demolition project.There will be no shortage of demolition jobs by her critics.Sometimes the "reality" flow chart is the product of a demolition derby.Each house converted costs less than demolition and building afresh.In the end they decided against any demolition work.It looked like an explosive demolition charge had collapsed the rock.Others hail them with great solemnity as demolition jobs on false ways of seeing and feeling.But the new design and the required demolition of buildings has divided architectural opinion.He set a demolition charge on the device before running back.Everyone needed time to take stock after the most prestigious solo race had turned into a demolition derby.She faces 20,000 demolition costs if the town hall rejects new plans.She sent 40 vans full of riot police yesterday to protect social workers and the demolition team.Both marriages are ripe for either refurbishment, or total demolition.In the early 1990s it faced virtual demolition.Its demolition arm tackles projects in Britain and overseas.He returned home to help his father, who had moved on to demolition work.Many hours would be needed to plant charges and, as a result, a large team of demolition experts would be necessary.It was a geographical gift for German demolition experts; one blown bridge could hold up an army for as long as its ruins could be defended.

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demolition

British English: demolition NOUN
The demolition of a building is the act of deliberately destroying it, often in order to build something else in its place.
The project required the total demolition of the old school.
  • American English: demolition
  • Brazilian Portuguese: demolição
  • Chinese: 拆毁
  • European Spanish: demolición
  • French: démolition
  • German: Abriss
  • Italian: demolizione
  • Japanese: >取り壊し建物などの
  • Korean: 철거
  • European Portuguese: demolição
  • Latin American Spanish: demolición

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Chinese translation of 'demolition'

demolition

(dɛməˈlɪʃən)

n (c/u)

  1. [of building] 拆毁(毀) (chāihuǐ)
(noun) 
the total demolition of the old bridge
Synonyms
knocking down
levelling
destruction
the extensive destruction caused by the rioters
explosion
wrecking
tearing down
bulldozing
razing
(noun) 
their impressive 6-1 demolition of their rivals
Synonyms
defeat
The vote was seen as something of a defeat for the lobbyists.
beating
A beating at Wembley would be too much of a trauma for them.
overthrow
They were charged with plotting the overthrow of the state.
pasting (slang)
conquest
This hidden treasure charts the brutal Spanish conquest of the Aztecs.
rout
The retreat turned into a rout.
trouncing
vanquishment

Additional synonyms

in the sense of beating
A beating at Wembley would be too much of a trauma for them.
Synonyms
defeat,
ruin,
overthrow,
pasting (slang),
conquest,
rout,
downfall
in the sense of conquest
Definition
the act of conquering
This hidden treasure charts the brutal Spanish conquest of the Aztecs.
Synonyms
defeat,
victory,
triumph,
overthrow,
pasting (slang),
rout,
mastery,
vanquishment
in the sense of destruction
Definition
the act of destroying something or state of being destroyed
the extensive destruction caused by the rioters
Synonyms
ruin,
havoc,
wreckage,
crushing,
wrecking,
shattering,
undoing,
demolition,
devastation,
annihilation,
ruination

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