die back

英 [daɪ bæk]

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（植物）枯死但根部还活着〔说明〕die back通常不用于进行体。

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (植物)回枯，假死（指枝叶枯萎而根部仍存活）
  If a plantdies back, its leaves die but its roots remain alive.
  1. They often take a long time to die back after flowering.
     花期过后，它们的枝叶常常过很长一段时间才会枯萎。

英英释义

verb

• suffer from a disease that kills shoots
  1. The plants near the garage are dying back
  Synonym:die down

双语例句

• "And oh, I shall die if I have to go back to Tara in disgrace, like mother threatens!"
  “并且，唔，如果硬叫我这么丢脸地回塔拉去，我就要像母亲警告过的那样，死给他看！”
• Design of the Drawing Die for the Back Cover of the Refrigerator Compressor
  冰箱压缩机后罩拉伸模设计
• Summer crowds die down as kids go back to school, and airfares and hotel rates fall with the leaves.
  随着落叶飘零，学生返校，避免了夏季避暑人群高峰，机票和酒店价格这时候也跟着下降。
• They often take a long time to die back after flowering.
  花期过后，它们的枝叶常常过很长一段时间才会枯萎。
• He would rather die than go back on his comrades.
  他宁死不出卖自己的同志。
• Which die hard movie do you bring back?
  你会租哪一集“虎胆龙威”？
• Conversely, when forests are cleared or die back because of global warming, they emit carbon.
  与此相反，当森林被采伐，或由于全球变暖而枯死，会释放二氧化碳。
• Finally the root-knots rotted, and dropping of etiolated leaves and the die back of the branches occurred.
  后期根结腐烂，病树叶片黄化脱落，梢枯乃至死亡。
• Your eyes close and open again and again, I die and come back time after time.
  你眼睛眨呀眨，我就死去活来千百回。
• And Melanie will die if we take her back to surgery too soon.
  同时如果我们太快给她做手术她也会死。