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
- Dinosaurs died out
双语例句
- 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。 - And what are they going to do when all the old ladies die off?
也许你要问了,那这些老太太都驾鹤西归了怎么办呢? - Contraction of front and side parts as cells die off was observed in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in some sixty and seventy-year-olds.
有的人(大脑)前部和侧部的收缩随着细胞的死亡在三十多岁时就能被观察到了,但是也有些人直到六七岁依然不明显。 - We are on a lower dimension of life and as such instead of combusting into bits, we would gradually fade as all life would die off in the dance of extinction.
我们身处在更低些的生命维度上,这样一来,我们不会焚化成碎片,而是会逐渐湮灭,因为一切生命都会在绝灭的舞蹈中死去。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Initial findings indicate poultry die off in the vicinity of the case's home in the week prior to the onset of illness.
初步结论表明在该病例发病前一周内,其住所附近有禽类死亡。