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
- Contrary to the accepted wisdom that humans don't make new fat cells, scientists have found that our bodies constantly generate fresh cells each year to replace those that naturally die off.
人体不再产生新的脂肪细胞，与这个广泛接受的结论相反，科学家们发现：我们的体内每年都在不断的产生新的细胞来替代自然衰老死亡的细胞。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。