dwindle

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英[?dw?ndl]
美[?dw?ndl]

基本釋義

vi.
減少,變小,縮小; 衰落,變壞,退化

詞性變化

實用例句

dwindling audiences

越來越少的觀眾

牛津詞典

Support for the party has dwindled away to nothing.

支持這個黨派的人漸漸化為烏有。

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Membership of the club has dwindled from 70 to 20.

俱樂部會員人數(shù)已從70減少到20。

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The factory's workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred...

工廠雇員總數(shù)已經(jīng)從 4,000 多人減少到幾百人。

Exports are dwindling and the trade deficit is swelling...

出口在縮減,貿(mào)易赤字在增長。

Females become rare, causing fewer young dinosaurs to be born and species to dwindle to extinction.

雌性恐龍變得非常稀少, 導致越來越少幼恐龍的出生,以致這個物種數(shù)量日漸稀少,直至滅絕.

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The minute you begin to forgive yourself, you start to dwindle.

[人都是在原諒自己的那一分鐘開始懈怠. ]

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Savings will begin to dwindle as retirees run them down.

退休人員會使中國的儲蓄率開始下降.

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The number of people going to the cinema seems to dwindle steadily.

看電影的人數(shù)似乎在逐漸下降.

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Bribery has begun to dwindle since the OECD convention, says Transparency International, a pressure group.

壓力團體“透明國際(TransparencyInternational)”表示,自從締結“經(jīng)合組織合約”之后, 賄賂已經(jīng)開始減少.

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In that day there will be no light ; the luminaries will dwindle.

亞14:6那日、必沒有光.三光必退縮.

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Yet, as earth's other natural resources dwindle, nations eye the Antarctic as a final repository.

然而, 由于地球上其他自然資源的減少, 一些國家視南極洲為最后的寶庫.

百科語句

His money dwindle away to nothing while traveling in europe.

在游歐期間,他花光了所有的錢.

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If I continues to endure you a little longer, I may dwindle into a wife.

假如我再容忍你下去的話, 我可能會一步步退化至成為老婆也未可知.

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As gym classes dwindle, can kids keep fit?

健身課減少了, 孩子們怎么保持健康?

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" Yes, he has. With every advance, our numbers dwindle. "

“ 不, 他贏了. 他每前進一步, 我們的人數(shù)量就減少了. ”

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Allowing one axis of the ellipse to dwindle to zero, the crack limIt'solution is obtained.

將橢圓一軸縮小到零, 得到了裂紋情況的位錯象力.

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Women usually had more than men, and the amount tended to dwindle with age.

女人通常比男人的棕色脂肪更多, 棕色脂肪的量隨著年齡的增長而呈現(xiàn)減少的趨勢.

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Over time electricity will dwindle and cease to be available to be harvested through any means.

經(jīng)過一段時間,電力將會衰竭,并不再能通過任何方法而獲得.

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Your social invitations will 10 dwindle and your circle of friends will undoubtedly shrink.

你接到的社交類邀請就會減少,朋友圈也會越來越小.

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When there is no rain for a long time, water supplies often dwindle.

結合上下文和生活常識可知很長時間不下雨的話, “水供應”時常會減少.

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It is interesting how even the closest of family ties dwindle into habitual friendship.

家人的緊密聯(lián)系如何衰退成習慣的友誼關系,是一件有趣的事.

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英英釋義

Verb
  • 1. become smaller or lose substance;

    "Her savings dwindled down"

同義詞辨析

decrease, diminish, lessen, reduce, dwindle

這些協(xié)詞的共同含義是"減少,變少"。

  • decrease: 指逐漸地、不斷地減少。
  • diminish: 側重大小數(shù)量和重要性的不斷減小,強調(diào)減小的部分。
  • lessen: 普通用詞,與decrease近義。指數(shù)目、程度、價值、實力等的減少。
  • reduce: 普通用詞,含義廣。指數(shù)量、程度的降低或減少。
  • dwindle: 與decrease同義,指逐漸減小,但強調(diào)變得越來越少終至全無。

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