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Bad policy can decimate the social fabric, but good policy can only modestly improve it.
坏的政策可以毁掉社会结构，而好的政策也只能稍稍地改进社会结构。
However, the food industry yesterday slammed the idea as 'dangerous', 'totally unrealistic' and likely to decimate British agriculture.
但是，食品工业昨日抨击这个做法是危险的不现实的，而且极有可能毁掉英国农业。
The lionfish gorge on small fish, mollusks and invertebrates, enough to fill out to as much as 480 grams and decimate local populations on the coral reefs they inhabit.
狮子鱼以小的鱼类，软体动物和无脊椎动物为食，足够将身体填至高达 480 克，在他们所居住的珊瑚礁大量杀死本地物种。

And Joseph knows that it would decimate his father Jacob to lose Rachel's only remaining son, but he's testing his brothers to see whether they have reformed since the day that they sold him into slavery.
约瑟夫知道这将打击他父亲雅各布,如果失去Rachel唯一剩下的儿子，但他只想考验兄弟看他们是否改过自新,在他们把他变卖为奴之后。
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To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
To decimate a system or organization means to reduce its size and effectiveness greatly.