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
- For some reason, people occasionally predict the same outcome from giving away software: Everyone will use the free software, but no one will contribute, and it'll die off from bitrot.
出于某些原因,人们有时会预测出关于白送软件的一个共同结果:所有人都使用自由软件,但是没有人会贡献,而最终它将消失。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。
