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
- When birds began to die off, People began to criticize the use of chemical pesticides.
当鸟类开始相继死去时，人们就开始对使用化学杀虫剂提出批评。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - In like manner, because of factors like acidity of rain, weather shock in insects or even bacteria in the soil, even plants and animals familiar to an area may succumb, and die off.
同样地，即使作物和动物处在与过去相似的环境里，但某些象酸雨、遭受病虫害或土壤里微生物的侵害等因素也会令他们无法招架或死亡。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Maybe some day we'll just die off.
也许有一天我们就会死去。 - 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。