Diminished

例句:

• The value of the most barren land is not diminished by the neighbourhood of the most fertile. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The freedom of choice which this allows him, is therefore much greater, and the difficulty of his task much more diminished, than at first appears. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Our first plan had been to quit our wintry native latitude, and seek for our diminished numbers the luxuries and delights of a southern climate. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Not only the profits of stock, but the rent of land, and the wages of labour, would necessarily be more or less diminished by its removal. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In our poultry, a large tuft of feathers on the head is generally accompanied by a diminished comb, and a large beard by diminished wattles. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The profits of stock would be diminished, both really and in appearance. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Thus, we talked of them, and moralized, as with diminished numbers we returned to Windsor Castle. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The reddleman watched his form as it diminished to a speck on the road and became absorbed in the thickening films of night. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• After numerous experiments, in which the dimensions of the screw were successively diminished, the propeller was at length reduced to two oblique blades. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• I shall, however, if it is not diminished by some accident before my death, leave a considerable estate among my descendants and relations. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• In the course of from three or four days to as many weeks the freckles will either have disappeared entirely or their intensity will be very greatly diminished. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Birkin, white and diminished, looked on as if he were displeased. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Instead of the diminished demand for horses which was apprehended when railways displaced stage coaches, public conveyances have increased a hundredfold. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• But the rents of every class of houses for which the competition was diminished, would necessarily be more or less reduced. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Age and heat have not diminished the activity or the eloquence of the descendant of the Malonys and the Molloys. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The labour necessary to bring the lands to this sort of culture, employed and fed the offcasts of the diminished manufactories. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She suffered when she felt her day was diminished, she felt she had missed her life. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Her appetite was diminished; she knew the reason. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He had diminished the distance rapidly, but not so rapidly as to come up with Monseigneur on the road. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Susan uttered the lugubrious discourse three times slowly, and when it was completed the image had considerably diminished. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Her rosy blondness had survived some forty years of futile activity without showing much trace of ill-usage except in a diminished play of feature. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The wire-drawing of metals depends on the property of solid bodies, which renders them capable of being extended without any separation of their parts, while their thickness is diminished. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Deerhurst's stock of assurance was not to be diminished by two mere boys. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Nor was the agitation by any means diminished, when the scout rushed back with the intelligence that the lady was 'a slap-up gal in a bang-up chariot. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This army demanded high wages and materially increased the cost of reaping the crop, and sadly diminished the profits. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The angle may be diminished if the bore of the tube is increased. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• John did not find Meg's beauty diminished, though she beamed at him from behind the familiar coffee pot. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The impatience of Cedric had been rather enhanced than diminished by his confinement. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Miss Rugg, perhaps making up some of her arrears, likewise took very kindly to the mutton, and it rapidly diminished to the bone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• So necessary are the visits of bees to many papilionaceous flowers, that their fertility is greatly diminished if these visits be prevented. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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