Diminish
[dɪ'mɪnɪʃ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; 'don't belittle your colleagues'.
杰罗姆錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
(v. t.) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
(v. t.) To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
(v. t.) To take away; to subtract.
(v. i.) To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.
整理:肯尼思
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Lessen, decrease, abate, reduce, make smaller.
v. n. Decrease, lessen, abate, subside, grow or become less, be reduced.
手打:罗莎琳德
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Lessen, reduce, contract, curtail, dwarf, decrease, subside, shorten, abate,retrench
ANT:Increase, enlarge, expand, extend, amplify, magnify
編輯:奥马尔
解釋/意思:
v.t. to make less: to take a part from: to degrade.—v.i. to grow or appear less: to subside.—adj. Dimin′ishable.—p.adj. Dimin′ished made smaller humbled: (mus.) lessened by a half-step as an interval.—adv. Dimin′ishingly.
錄入:赛斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Yet this consideration does not, or rather did not in after time, diminish the reproaches of my conscience. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I watched to see whether it would spread: but no; as it did not diminish, so it did not enlarge. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- As it has no tendency to diminish the quantity, it can have none to raise the price of that produce. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But this does not reflect upon or diminish the ingenuity required for its invention. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- A seignorage will, in many cases, take away altogether, and will in all cases diminish, the profit of melting down the new coin. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The high price of such commodities does not necessarily diminish the ability of the inferior ranks of people to bring up families. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The value of the most barren land is not diminished by the neighbourhood of the most fertile. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 沃爾特·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. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The profits of stock would be diminished, both really and in appearance. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Thus, we talked of them, and moralized, as with diminished numbers we returned to Windsor Castle. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The hunters of the third and last stage of the later Pal?olithic Age appear to have supplemented a diminishing food supply by fishing. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We could thus take care of a snow-storm by diminishing the bulk of material to be handled. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But instead of diminishing their claims to approbation and reward, it places those claims on a more substantial foundation than that of abstract original ideas. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The diseases they were subject to still continue, without increasing or diminishing. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Further on Wells remarks that this diminishing actuality of our political life is a matter of almost universal comment to-day. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- This tribe accordingly went on diminishing, till there remained in their town on the manor but twenty persons, viz. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- This new battery was strong enough to pass a powerful current through the magnet without materially diminishing the strength of the line current. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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. 科學通論.
- 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. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The light diminishes in brightness much more rapidly than we realize, as the following simple experiment will show. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Mr. Bucket brings a chair and diminishes his shadow. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The same quantity of money, besides, can not long remain in any country in which the value of the annual produce diminishes. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In proportion as the resemblance decays, the probability diminishes; but still has some force as long as there remain any traces of the resemblance. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
校對:普拉特