Decline
[dɪ'klaɪn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) change toward something smaller or lower.
(noun.) a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state.
(verb.) grow smaller; 'Interest in the project waned'.
(verb.) inflect for number, gender, case, etc., 'in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives'.
(verb.) go down in value; 'the stock market corrected'; 'prices slumped'.
(verb.) go down; 'The roof declines here'.
亚伯拉罕手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
(v. i.) To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.
(v. i.) To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
(v. i.) To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
(v. t.) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
(v. t.) To cause to decrease or diminish.
(v. t.) To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.
(v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
(v. t.) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
(v. i.) A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.
(v. i.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
(v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
詹妮整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Lean downward.[2]. Decay, sink, droop, languish, pine, fail, become feeble.[3]. Deteriorate, degenerate, be impaired.[4]. Decrease, lessen, diminish, wane, fall away.
v. a. [1]. Refuse, reject.[2]. (Gram.) Inflect, vary.
n. [1]. Decline, deterioration, degeneracy, decay, diminution, falling off.[2]. Consumption, phthisis, marasmus, atrophy, gradual wasting, progressive emaciation.
手打:所罗门
解釋/意思:
v.i. to bend or turn away from (a straight line); to deviate: to refuse: to bend down: to fail or decay: to stoop or condescend: to draw to an end.—v.t. to bend down: to turn away from: to refuse: to avoid: (gram.) to give the changes of a word in the oblique cases.—n. a falling off: deviation: decay: a gradual sinking of the bodily faculties consumption.—adjs. Declin′able having inflection for the oblique cases; Declī′nal bending downward; Dec′linant (her.) having the tail hanging down—also Dec′livant.—ns. Declinā′tion act of declining: a sloping or bending downward: deviation: (astron.) distance from the celestial equator; Dec′linātor an instrument determining declination.—adj. Declin′atory containing a declination or refusal—ns. Declin′ature act of declining or refusing: (law) a plea declining the jurisdiction of a judge; Declinom′eter an instrument for measuring the declination of the compass—i.e. the deviation of the magnetic needle from the true north.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Do you decline to take those letters, Mr. Copperfield? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Eustacia might possibly decline to use her pen--it was rather her way to work silently--and surprise him by appearing at his door. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- To Leinster's joy and our astonishment, Lord Worcester said he must really decline my very polite offer, grateful as he felt for it. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- This led him to review the existing state of affairs (1780) and to compare it with the state of affairs during the decline of imperial Rome. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A man may, from various motives, decline to give his company, but perhaps not even a sage would be gratified that nobody missed him. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You decline it, Sir? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- But it was easy to die like a Turk, by a dogged decline. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Investigation of these cases, however, revealed invariably the purely fraudulent nature of all such offers, which were uniformly declined. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Miss Kate and Mr. Brooke, Meg, and Ned declined, but Fred, Sallie, Jo, and Laurie piled and drew, and the lot fell to Laurie. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Floyd turned over the command to Pillow, who declined it. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- When I knocked for admission a priest came to the door who, while extremely polite, declined to admit us. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It is needless to say that I declined to understand that he was offended with me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Mrs. Strong had declined to play, on the ground of not feeling very well; and her cousin Maldon had excused himself because he had some packing to do. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I said, with withering irony, that it was sufficient to be skinned--I declined to be scalped. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In the mean time Keimer's credit and business declining daily, he was at last forced to sell his printing-house to satisfy his creditors. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I thought he meant to try his skill, by his manner of declining it yesterday. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- In an age when religious faith was declining, we find men displaying a new and vivid belief in the reality of these personifications. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- If you give those names to my thanking you for your proposal and declining it, is it my fault, Mr Headstone? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The worst excuse a soldier can make for declining service is that he once ranked the commander he is ordered to report to. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It ended in my flatly declining to mention the subject to Laura, unless she first approached it of her own accord. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Say, Plornish, though six weeks in arrear to my proprietor, declines. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Life will ebb and flow to and from every region seasonally as the interest of that region rises or declines. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Tom Moody rides up to the door of the Hall, where he is welcomed by the butler, who offers him drink, which he declines. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Declines to marry? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Mortimer looks gloomy, and declines to answer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He declines to choose a profession. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Henry is entreating her to come; she declines. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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