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

• 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。
• 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。
• Researchers isolated two proteins, known as CCSA-3 and CCSA-4, that appear to be released into the bloodstream when some of the cancer cells in a tumor die off.
  研究人员分离出两种蛋白命名为CCSA-3和CCSA-4，这两种蛋白似乎在肿瘤一些癌细胞死亡后被释放入血流。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Maybe some day we'll just die off.
  也许有一天我们就会死去。