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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - And what are they going to do when all the old ladies die off?
也许你要问了，那这些老太太都驾鹤西归了怎么办呢？