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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Maybe some day we'll just die off.
也许有一天我们就会死去。 - When insects can't get the right plants to eat and they die off, then the birds don't have enough bugs for their meals.
当昆虫无法得到适合的可食植物时便会死去,这样一来鸟类便没有足够的食物。 - When we take a species out of its native home and transport it elsewhere, it may face new challenges and die off, or it may find itself virtually unencumbered by constraining forces.
如果我们让一个物种离开原产地,运到别处去,那么在新环境中,这个物种可能会遭遇到新的威胁而相继死亡,也可能发现几乎没有任何一种可以制约自己的力量。 - • will location-based check-ins, one of the latest tech trends pioneered by services like foursquare, Gowalla, and Loopt, die off this year?
•基于位置的签到是最新技术趋势之一,Foursquare、Gowalla和Loopt等服务是该领域的领跑者,不过,这项技术会在今年消亡吗? - 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。 - 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。 - There have been reports of poultry die off in her village.
有报道称,病人所在的村庄有家禽死亡情况。