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There are new uses of words coming in and old uses dying out.

词语的新用法在涌现，旧用法在消亡。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The project also works to prevent languages from dying out by identifying the most threatened areas where languages are disappearing.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.

在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It doesn't sound right when other men are out there dying, so they raised taxes during World War One.

在有人战死沙场的时候,发战争财是件龌龊的事情，所以他们在第一次世界大战时这么做了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

To make matters worse, even if the catch as a whole is stable, certain species are clearly dying out.

ECONOMIST: The Mekong river

The world's languages, which number about 6, 900, are reckoned to be dying out at the rate of one a fortnight.

ECONOMIST: Linguistics

She added that research indicated hedgehogs were dying out at a rate of one fifth of the population every four years.

BBC: Anonymous donor gives ?50k for new hedgehog hospital