用刀杀死：指使用刀剑将某人杀死。
彻底消灭：指完全摧毁或消灭某物。
... Put the pedal to the floor 走得更快 Put to the sword 杀死 Put two and two together 根据事实推理 ...
The city and everyone in it Joshua put to the sword. He left no survivors there.
约书亚攻打这城，用刀击杀了城中的一切人口，没有留下一个。
When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.
耶和华你的神把城交付你手，你就要用刀杀尽这城的男丁。
And took it the same day: and put to the sword all the souls that were in it, according to all that he had done to Lachis.
当天就攻下了那城，并在那天用利剑杀尽了那城和城中的一切生灵，全如对待拉基士一样。
Having said that, I look back at the season and just don't think the Rhinos have been put to the sword.
Over the course of the next few years England did more than that, beating Zimbabwe and West Indies the following summer - a springboard to a remarkable winter in 2000-01, when both Pakistan and Sri Lanka were put to the sword.
They had to repel one Italian attack but could not add any more points of their own and their failure to really put the visitors to the sword means Wales look certain to add the 2008 title to their triumph in 2005.