depletes

英 [dɪˈpliːts]

美 [dɪˈpliːts]

v.  大量减少; 耗尽; 使枯竭
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柯林斯词典

• VERB （大量）减少，消耗
  Todepletea stock or amount of something means to reduce it.
  1. ...substances that deplete the ozone layer...
     大量消耗臭氧层的物质
  2. They fired in long bursts, which depleted their ammunition...
     他们长时间开火，耗尽了弹药。
  3. Most native mammal species have been severely depleted.
     大多数本地哺乳动物的数量都已经大大减少了。

双语例句

• This process gradually depletes the stock of hair.
  这个过程中逐渐耗尽存量的头发。
• After your health depletes to40% you will slowly lose health until you die.
  在你的生命直低于40%时，你会慢慢掉血直到死亡。
• The new structure effectively reflects and depletes the incident wave energy and decreases self made waves. By the improvement, the minimum wave height transmission coefficient of the floating breakwater can reach 0.22 under unfavorable incident wave conditions.
  此结构可增加浮筏对波能的反射和消耗，有效减少浮筏的自生波浪，可在较不利的入射波要素下，使浮筏的波高传递系数最低达0.22。
• Complaining depletes your energy; instead greet an overloaded day with optimism.
  抱怨只会让你精疲力竭，相反，应以乐观的态度对待每日重工作。
• Malnutrition impairs immunity, while infection often depletes nutrient and energy stores, in turn leading to more frequent and severe infections.
  营养不良能削弱免疫，而感染常常耗尽营养和能量储备，反过来导致更频繁和严重的感染。
• Rationale: Myocardial infarction ( MI) rapidly depletes the endogenous cardiac progenitor-cell pool, and the inefficient recruitment of exogenously administered progenitor cells limits the effectiveness of cardiac cell therapy.
  目的：心肌缺血导致内源性心肌祖细胞池迅速耗竭，通过注射外源性祖细胞的细胞治疗方法因为外源性心肌祖细胞不能有效地被招募到缺血部位而受到限制。
• To lose one's self-control. Stress depletes both energy and motivation.
  崩溃失去自我控制能力压力不仅消耗体力而且让你丧失动力。
• Stress depletes both energy and motivation.
  压力不仅消耗体力而且让你丧失动力。
• The traditional delicacy has grown in popularity with the rise of affluence in recent years, yet the process of fin collection resulting ultimately in the death of sharks depletes shark populations.
  随着近年来人们越来越富裕，这种传统美食日益受欢迎，然而收集鱼翅的过程会造成鲨鱼最终死亡，令鲨鱼数量锐减。
• Moreover, forcing oneself to focus only depletes energy.
  此外，强迫自己专注只会消耗精力。