deplete

英 [dɪˈpliːt]

美 [dɪˈpliːt]

v.  大量减少; 耗尽; 使枯竭

过去分词：depleted　现在分词：depleting　第三人称单数：depletes　过去式：depleted　

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Collins.2 / BNC.11772 / COCA.10191

牛津词典

verb

• 大量减少；耗尽；使枯竭
  to reduce sth by a large amount so that there is not enough left
  1. Food supplies were severely depleted.
     食物供应已严重不足。

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。

英英释义

verb

• use up (resources or materials)
  1. this car consumes a lot of gas
  2. We exhausted our savings
  3. They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
  Synonym:consumeeat upuse upeatexhaustrun throughwipe out

双语例句

• Elastic collisions deplete very little of the electron's energy.
  弹性碰撞中电子减少的能量非常少。
• Emotional trauma is one of the quickest and easiest ways to deplete your energy reserves in an instant.
  感情上的创伤是最快也是最简单的在霎那间耗尽你能量的方法。
• The more continuously we work without a break, the more we deplete our capacity to make rational, reflective decisions.
  我们越是不休息长时间地工作，就越容易耗尽我们的能力，让我们不能做出合理的、能够反应问题的决定。
• Technical cooperation trust fund to assist implementation of the Montreal Protocol on substance that Deplete the ozone layer in developing countries;
  协助发展中国家执行关于消耗臭氧层物质的蒙特利尔议定书的技术合作信托基金；
• It's safer and it won't deplete your bank account.
  这份工作更安全，又不会耗尽你的银行存款。
• 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。
• If we can draw a larger number over to our side, this will deplete the enemy's ranks and strengthen ours.
  假如我们能够从他们队伍中多拉一些人出来，那敌人的队伍就减少了，我们的队伍就扩大了。
• There's nothing like a stress-filled week to seriously deplete all of your energy.
  没有什么能像压力重重的一周那样严重耗尽你的所有能量。
• But unsustainable cropping practices further deplete soils, so that the amount removed through harvesting crops, soil erosion and other factors, exceeds the amounts put in through fertilisers.
  但是不可持续的作物种植方式进一步耗尽了土壤，因此收获农作物、土壤侵蚀和其他因素导致的磷流失超过了化肥输入的磷。
• These chemicals are thought to deplete the ozone layer.
  这些化学物质被认为是会破坏臭氧层的。