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
  1. Dinosaurs died out
  Synonym:die 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。
• Maybe some day we'll just die off.
  也许有一天我们就会死去。
• 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。
• • will location-based check-ins, one of the latest tech trends pioneered by services like foursquare, Gowalla, and Loopt, die off this year?
  •基于位置的签到是最新技术趋势之一，Foursquare、Gowalla和Loopt等服务是该领域的领跑者，不过，这项技术会在今年消亡吗？
• In doing so, the cancer cells die off naturally, without the need for harmful and expensive chemotherapy.
  在这个过程中，癌细胞就会自然死亡，使患者不必经历对身体伤害极大又十分昂贵的化疗过程。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。