英语释义

1. to empty of a principal substance
The lake was depleted of water. depleting the country of its natural resources

2. to lessen markedly in quantity, content, power, or value
deplete our life savings their depleted resources

3. to use most or all of (something important) to greatly reduce the amount of (something)

4. to reduce in amount by using up
The soil was depleted of minerals.

5. to empty (as the blood vessels) of a principal substance
a body depleted by excessive blood loss tissues depleted of vitamins

片语

Charger Depleting荷电消耗模式

depleting potential消耗臭氧潜能值

depleting substance消耗臭氧层物质

depleting test耗竭试验

energy depleting能耗

depleting refrigerant消耗臭氧层的制冷剂

ozonosphere[地物] 臭氧层（等于ozone layer）

exhausting使……精疲力竭；用完，耗尽；排放，排出（exhaust 的现在分词）

ozone layer[地物] 臭氧层

hematorrhage depleting血脱气脱

英汉例句

• We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.

  我们靠损耗全部自然储备变得富有——水、碳氢化合物、森林、河流、鱼类和耕地——而不是通过可持续的流动性增长。

• Over time, it short-circuits pain by depleting nerve cells of a chemical called substance p, which helps transfer pain signals along nerve endings to the brain.

  随着时间的推移，它通过消耗神经细胞中一种叫做P物质(或称肽物质，一种神经传递介质)的化学物质来减轻疼痛，该物质使痛觉信号沿神经末梢传递至大脑。

• They「re costly to make, for one, since the production of ammonia now accounts for roughly 2 percent of global energy use, and mining for phosphorus is depleting the planet」s finite reserves.

  首先，这些肥料的生产成本高，要知道合成氨的生产过程所使用的能量占世界全部消耗的2%，含磷矿石的开采正在日益加剧地球上有限资源储量的衰竭。

• Scientists are working with the Greenpeace crew, researching the effects of climate change on fast depleting sea ice.

  科学家们正在与绿色和平组织的船员们一起研究有关气候变化对海冰快速损耗的影响。

• When you exercise deliberate control to suppress urges, suppress thoughts, make decisions, resist temptations, or summon the will to do something, you are depleting a limited supply.

  当你下意识地抑制自己的沖动、想法、下意识地做出决定、抵制诱惑，全力以赴，你就会逐渐疲惫。

• We can either spend our time depleting and draining our energy or by sustaining it and adding to it.

  我们可以把时间用于消耗我们的精力，或者是维持精力并使之增加。

• Many out-of-work Americans have lost unemployment and severance benefits and are depleting their savings.

  许多失业的美国人还失去了退职抚恤金，其积蓄也即将消耗殆尽。

• Human beings are living off naturalcapital, Brown argues, eroding soil and depleting groundwater faster than theycan be replenished.

  布朗认为，人类依靠自然资源生活，土壤侵蚀，地下水消耗的速度比它们得到补充的速度要快。

• But illegal logging is depleting the rainforest — and the U.S. is responsible for buying 80% of the mahogany.

  然而，不法砍伐滥伐正在耗竭这篇原始森林——收购这里80%的红木的美国，应该对此负有责任。

• Months of violent political crisis are depleting the savings and stockpiles of more and more Yemenis, so that not only beggars, but neighbors, come round to quietly ask for food.

  已经持续了几个月的暴力政治沖突正在消耗着越来越多也门人们的储蓄和贮存，导致了不仅仅是乞丐还有周边的居民转而悄悄地寻求着食物。

• You are ruining it: depleting your natural resources, polluting your air, sickening your oceans, and destroying unique species forever. This is just plain wrong, not to mention completely irrational.

  你们正在毁掉这颗星球：把自然资源消耗殆尽，污染空气，毁掉大海，将许多独特的物种永久地灭绝。

• While asleep, suffers may stop breathing for between 10 to 25 seconds at a time, depleting the bloodstream and brain of vital oxygen supplies.

  患者睡觉的时候可能会有10到25秒的时间是没有呼吸的，这会减少血流和大脑的供氧量。

• After it built a bottling plant in Kerala, India, in 2000, Coca-Cola faced a barrage of criticism for allegedly depleting local groundwater.

  2000年，它在印度碦拉拉邦建立了一家瓶装工厂后，公司受到了铺天盖地的批评，因为所谓的对当地地下水的消耗。

• The inescapable conclusion is that fishers were depleting Delaware Bay「s horseshoe crab population, causing a reduction in the number of horseshoe crab eggs upon which the shorebirds feed.

  不可避免的结论是，渔民们正在逐渐把特拉华湾的马蹄蟹斩尽杀绝，造成可以养活水鸟的蟹卵的减少。

• They also plant the same crop year after year, depleting the nutrients in the soil.

  年复一年他们重复种同样的农作物，耗尽了土里的营养。

• Greed is also the reason why people are depleting natural resources at an unprecedented rate.

  贪婪也是人们以史无前例的速率耗费自然资源的原因所在。

• Those that did may have to recognise large, immediate losses, depleting their capital.

  那些银行很可能已经意识到巨大的直接损失正在消耗着他们的资金。

• Much of Yemen」s water is mined from rapidly depleting underground aquifers.

  也门的大部分用水都是从快速耗竭的地下蓄水层中开采的。

• Their manure contains phosphorus, which, when it rains, runs off into lakes and estuaries, depleting oxygen, killing fish, stimulating algae overgrowth and emitting greenhouse gases.

  它们的排泄物含有磷，下雨的时候，将被沖刷进入湖中和江河口，耗尽水中的氧气，杀死鱼类，刺激藻类的生长，并且释放温室气体。

• At the same time, when your body becomes hotter, muscle enzymes speed up, burning glycogen more rapidly, depleting stores of the sugar that the muscles use for fuel.

  同时，当体温升高，肌肉中的酶就会加速产生，加快肌糖原转化，降低了维持肌肉能量的糖的储存。

相似词

absorb吸收；吸引；承受；理解；使…全神贯注

burn(Burn)人名；(英)伯恩

consume耗尽，毁灭；耗尽生命

devour吞食；毁灭

drain排水；流干；喝光；（感情）变淡；使精疲力竭；（非正式）将（球）轻击入穴

draw down引来，招致；从涂层取样；拉下来

exhaust废气；排气管

expend花费；消耗；用光；耗尽

spend度过，消磨（时光）；花费；浪费；用尽

use up用完，耗尽

相反词

renew更新；重新开始

replace取代，代替；替换，更换；归还，偿还；把…放回原处