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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Stress depletes both energy and motivation.
  压力不仅消耗体力而且让你丧失动力。
• 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。
• 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。
• Studies have shown that parental stress weakens childrens brains, depletes their immune systems, and increases their risk of obesity, mental illness, diabetes, allergies, even tooth decay.
  研究表明，家长的压力不利于孩子的大脑和免疫系统，增加孩子肥胖、精神疾病、糖尿病、过敏乃至蛀牙的风险。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。