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Overwhelmed by the onslaught spaniards abandoned their homes to the insects depopulating santo domingo .

西班牙人被蚂蚁的猛攻打败了，他们放弃了自己的家园，让给了这种昆虫。

But now the chinatowns in san francisco and new york are depopulating becoming less residential and more service-oriented .

不过现在旧金山和纽约的唐人街的人口也在减少，居住性减弱了，变得更为面向服务。

And the massive restructuring of the manufacturing sector during the 1970s and 1980s , which shrank the number of factory jobs drastically , all but depopulating some old u.s. industrial communities .

又如70年代和80年代的制造业大规模调整，大幅度减少了工厂中的就业机会，使得美国某些老工业区人口锐减。