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

• Alcohol also depletes your body's Vitamin B, and can disrupt sleep and impair judgment and clarity of thought.
  酒精也耗尽你的身体的维生素B，可以扰乱睡眠和损害的判断和清晰的思路。
• 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。
• Alcohol, on the other hand, depletes your body of the vitamins and minerals it needed to be functional.
  酒精，另一方面，耗尽你的身体的维生素和矿物质，它需要的功能。
• 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。
• This depletes the skin of oxygen and nutrients, such as vitamin A, that are important to skin health.
  那么皮肤中的氧含量和养分将会下降，例如维他命A，它对皮肤健康起重要作用。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• In this process a chemical reaction occurs that depletes the metal plates and chemicals in the solution.
  在这个过程中发生了某种化学反应，这反应消耗了金属板和溶液中的化学药品。