die off

英 [daɪ ɒf]

美 [daɪ ɔːf]

（一组生命体）一个接一个地死去直到死光

英英释义

verb

• become extinct
  1. Dinosaurs died out
  Synonym:die out

双语例句

• If the snowstorm does not blow over, the cattle will die off.
  如果暴风雪不停息，很多牲畜就要死掉了。
• Maybe some day we'll just die off.
  也许有一天我们就会死去。
• When in the laboratory bacteria outrun the substances on which they feed, they die off.
  无需在远远的实验室里等到细菌生长就可以得到测试结果。
• In like manner, because of factors like acidity of rain, weather shock in insects or even bacteria in the soil, even plants and animals familiar to an area may succumb, and die off.
  同样地，即使作物和动物处在与过去相似的环境里，但某些象酸雨、遭受病虫害或土壤里微生物的侵害等因素也会令他们无法招架或死亡。
• Natural selection allowed those early tribes to either learn and grow or fail to learn and die off as a culture.
  物竞天择迫使那些代表一种文化的早期部落要么学会适应并发展起来，或者学不会适应而堕落灭亡。
• By then, Japan's population will have shrunk by around 20 million people, an unprecedented die off for a nation neither at war or blighted by famine.
  到那时日本人口将缩减至2000万人，对于一个期间既没有经历战争也没有遭遇饥荒的国家来说，这种人口缩减是史无前例的。
• Pollution from sewage or farm waste can cause excess algae growth, starving the water of oxygen and causing fish and other species to die off.
  从下水道或者农场里出来的污染水引起藻类的过度生长，造成水里的氧气严重缺失，以至于鱼类和别的物种相继死去。
• As sensitive organisms die off, resistant strains may come to dominate, and over time an antimalarial drug can lose its ability to cure infection.
  随着敏感生物体相继死亡，耐药株开始占首要地位，并且抗疟药可在一段时间内丧失其治愈感染的能力。
• Each time it drained, it caused entire species of sea plants and creatures to die off.
  每次干涸，它都会造成整个海洋植物和动物的消亡。
• In doing so, the cancer cells die off naturally, without the need for harmful and expensive chemotherapy.
  在这个过程中，癌细胞就会自然死亡，使患者不必经历对身体伤害极大又十分昂贵的化疗过程。