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
- 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。 - There have been reports of poultry die off in her village and the case is reported to have had exposure to dead poultry.
有报告称，病人所在的村庄有家禽死亡情况。据报告，病人曾与病禽有过接触。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - As sensitive organisms die off, resistant strains may come to dominate, and over time an antimalarial drug can lose its ability to cure infection.
随着敏感生物体相继死亡，耐药株开始占首要地位，并且抗疟药可在一段时间内丧失其治愈感染的能力。 - 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。 - Maybe some day we'll just die off.
也许有一天我们就会死去。