kill off

英 [kɪl ɒf]

美 [kɪl ɔːf]

毁灭; 破坏; 扼杀; 使停止; 被全部杀死; 被灭绝

柯林斯词典

• → see:kill 3
• PHRASAL VERB 被全部杀死；被灭绝
  If you say that a group or an amount of somethinghas been killed off, you mean that all of them or all of it have been killed or destroyed.
  1. Their natural predators have been killed off...
     它们的天敌被全部杀死。
  2. It is an effective treatment for the bacteria and does kill it off...
     这是杀菌的特效药，能将其全部消灭。
  3. All blood products are now heat treated to kill off any infection.
     目前所有血液制品均经过热处理，以防止各种感染。

英英释义

verb

• kill en masse
  1. Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe
  Synonym:exterminate

双语例句

• Their natural predators have been killed off
  它们的天敌被全部杀死。
• Once you kill off confidence, it takes a long time to rebuild that confidence.
  一旦你摧毁了信心，你就要用很长的时间重建信心。
• This is a standard monopolistic tactic used to enter a new market-drive the price down ( in this case to$ 0) and kill off the competition.
  这是一个标准的垄断手段进入了一个新的市场-驱动器的价格下降（在这种情况下，以$0）和杀死的竞争。
• These figures kill off any lingering hopes of an early economic recovery.
  这些数字彻底扼杀了人们对经济早日复苏所抱的一线希望。
• To boost productivity at home, Japan needs to kill off some of its old, unprofitable companies.
  要提高国内生产力，日本需关闭一些衰老、不再盈利的企业。
• A catastrophic event such as disease or drought, for example, can kill off a small population.
  疾病或干旱这样的灾害就可以消灭一个小种群。
• New technologies like predictive analytics could kill off more of these jobs.
  新型技术，如预示分析，可以秒掉更多的此类工作。
• Of course, more attacks like this one may kill off any mooted talks.
  当然，更多像这样的袭击会扼杀无实际意义的谈话。
• That is a lucrative market, so why not kill off some corrupt official for all the body parts!
  既然是一个有利可图的市场，为什么不把腐败官员杀掉获取他们身上的器官呢？
• So the changing climate may have combine with meteor impact to kill off the dinosaurs.
  因此，气候变化和流星撞击地球可能是恐龙灭绝的元凶。