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

• 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。
• There are variables mankind does not normally consider that will be affecting life after the shift, such that an assumed plant or animal life would falter and simply die off, and others flourish.
  人们通常不会考虑到影响极移后生活的一些变数，如某些被看好的作物或动物竟然生存困难或干脆死亡，而另外一些却生机勃勃。
• Thos who can't adapt die off, while those who survive are of the best stock.
  不能适应的都死掉了，能够活过来的，就是优良的品种。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Perhaps it would be better to allow them to die off and fertilize the garden naturally.
  但留下它们是为你菜园施肥的最好方式。
• 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。
• If its stem cells are eradicated, the rest of a tumour may die off.
  若肿瘤干细胞被消灭，则其余部分也会相继死亡。