Diminishes

例句:

• We learned in Section 287 that the strength of a current increases when the electromotive force increases, and diminishes when the electromotive force diminishes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Now Dalton's master had taught that the atoms of matter in a gas (elastic fluid) repel one another by a force increasing in proport ion as their distance diminishes. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The light diminishes in brightness much more rapidly than we realize, as the following simple experiment will show. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• But the intensity of the vibrations diminishes very rapidly with the distance; so that even with the aid of speaking-tubes and trumpets it is impossible to exceed somewhat narrow limits. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Mr. Bucket brings a chair and diminishes his shadow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The same quantity of money, besides, can not long remain in any country in which the value of the annual produce diminishes. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In proportion as the resemblance decays, the probability diminishes; but still has some force as long as there remain any traces of the resemblance. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• When this distance diminishes, the comparison is less to our advantage; and consequently gives us less pleasure, and is even disagreeable. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• When the poles of a simple voltaic cell are connected by a wire, the current thus produced slowly diminishes in strength and, after a short time, becomes feeble. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• In the progress of improvement, rent, though it increases in proportion to the extent, diminishes in proportion to the produce of the land. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• And this is the reason why custom encreases all active habits, but diminishes passive, according to the observation of a late eminent philosopher. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The time diminishes daily, and is usefully employed. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The last form neither augments nor diminishes visible objects; the concave diminishes them, the convex increases them, but both show them blurred and indistinct. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The demand for servants increases, while the number of those who offer to supply that demand diminishes. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• That of the manufacturing workmanship diminishes, perhaps, in all of them without exception. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The cushion diminishes the force of the rolling balls and flying pins, permitting them to fall gently into the pit. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neither encreases nor diminishes. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

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