depleting

英 [dɪˈpliːtɪŋ]

美 [dɪˈpliːtɪŋ]

v.  大量减少; 耗尽; 使枯竭
deplete的现在分词

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

• Coffee isn't a great alternative however, with the caffeine depleting the body of moisture and making the skin look aged and the acid causing enamel damage over time.
  不过，咖啡也不是很好的替代饮品，咖啡因消耗体内的水分，使皮肤看起来显老，长期饮用咖啡的话，咖啡中含的酸对釉质有损伤作用。
• Be mindful you are not ignoring nor depleting your own energy reserves unwisely and unnecessarily.
  要注意你并不是在忽视或是愚笨和没有必要的耗尽你的精力储量。
• Petrel and her sisters did their work too well, depleting some whale species and nearly exterminating the blue.
  和她的姐妹工作得非常彻底，捕光了一些鲸鱼种群，几乎快灭绝掉蓝鲸。
• Ozone depleting substance control program will be implemented six years ahead of the original schedule.
  提前6年落实削减臭氧层消耗物质的计划。
• What are you doing to get rid of cash depleting liabilities and to increase cash generating assets?
  如何摆脱消耗现金的负债而增加产生现金的资产？
• Parliament's Standing Committee on Defence, in a report tabled last month, had commented adversely on the depleting squadron strength of the IAF, calling for immediate acquisitions and upgrades.
  国会防务发言人在上月的一个报告中强烈批评了IAF空中力量的损耗，并呼吁对此进行迅速的补充和升级。
• The world economy is depleting the earth's biodiversity, ocean fisheries, grasslands, tropical forests, and oil and gas reserves.
  世界经济正消耗著地球的生物多样性、洋渔场、原、带森林、油与天然气的储藏量。
• If American Jews worry about assimilation depleting their numbers, so much more do the already less numerous Jews of Europe.
  如果美国犹太人担心同化会减少他们的人数，那么人数更少的欧洲犹太人就更应已经如此了。
• In the long term, protecting an ecosystem may cost less, and allow us to reap its benefits for longer, than depleting its resources.
  长远来看，保护生态系统的成本也许能降级，此外，相比于耗尽生态系统资源，我们还能更长久地享受其好处。
• Most of these extinctions are tied to human activities that are polluting and depleting water resources, changing and degrading habitats and altering the global climate.
  这些人类活动污染着水源并使之枯竭，改变着生境并使之退化，并且正在改变全球气候。