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

• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• Maybe some day we'll just die off.
  也许有一天我们就会死去。
• 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。
• 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。
• There have been reports of poultry die off in her village.
  有报道称，病人所在的村庄有家禽死亡情况。
• Initial findings indicate poultry die off in the vicinity of the case's home in the week prior to the onset of illness.
  初步结论表明在该病例发病前一周内，其住所附近有禽类死亡。