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

• 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？
• The Buddhist admonition is to utilise nature in the same way as a bee collects pollen from the flower, neither polluting its beauty nor depleting its fragrance.
  佛教劝诫我们应像蜜蜂一样合理利用自然。蜜蜂从花朵中采集花粉，既不会污染花朵的美丽，也不会减少花朵的芳香；
• Depleting the number of professional talents and reducing the training cost of enterprise.
  减少招募专业的人才和降低企业的培训成本。
• 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。
• 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，将被冲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。
• In March, the Board ratified a global policy for allocating the rapidly depleting IPv4 address blocks.
  2009年3月份，董事会批准了迅速分配掉剩余IPv4地址块的一个全球性新政策。
• 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。
• With the increase of the number of large space buildings, the kind of building is depleting more and more energy.
  随着大空间公共建筑建设量的增大，其对能源的消耗也越来越高。
• 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。
• The power glove has been depleting my life.
  “拳神手套”一直在损耗我的生命。