depletes

英 [dɪˈpliːts]

美 [dɪˈpliːts]

v.  大量减少; 耗尽; 使枯竭
deplete的第三人称单数

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

• Ischemic neuronal injury is a complicated pathophysiological process. Lack of glucose and oxygen depletes the cellular energy stores required to maintain membrane potentials and transmembrane ion gradients.
  脑缺血后，糖和氧的供应随之减少，维持膜电位和跨膜离子梯度的细胞能量储备被耗竭，细胞膜去极化，导致钙离子通过电压门控式钙离子通道内流，触发神经递质如。
• This process gradually depletes the stock of hair.
  这个过程中逐渐耗尽存量的头发。
• Therefore, when God dies, the human psychological strength depletes, and they become as if the demons and geniuses.
  所以上帝死亡之后的时代，人们的心理力量废弛，仿佛自己成了魔鬼或精灵。
• Though recrystallization may refine austenite grain, it depletes large quantities of defects in austenite grains, which will retards the phase transformation process.
  再结晶虽然可能细化了晶粒，但大量消耗了热变形奥氏体中的晶体缺陷，其结果是迟滞了相变过程。
• In the meanwhile, substantial water is produced from oil wells at later stage of oilfield development, therefore, formation pressure depletes.
  与此同时，在油气田开发后期，油气井大量出水，地层能量衰竭。
• Stress depletes both energy and motivation.
  压力不仅消耗体力而且让你丧失动力。
• The fall in the oil prices depletes their tax receipts and damages economies that rely heavily on the energy industry.
  油价下跌减少了它们的税收收入，破坏了严重依赖能源行业的经济。
• 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。
• But countries have a history of using, rather than managing, land, which depletes the organic content of soil and releases carbon dioxide into the environment.
  但是各国利用土地的历史比管理土地的历史更长，这耗尽了土壤中的有机成分并向环境中释放了二氧化碳。
• Moreover, forcing oneself to focus only depletes energy.
  此外，强迫自己专注只会消耗精力。