Diminished
[dɪ'mɪnɪʃt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval; 'a diminished fifth' .
(adj.) impaired by diminution .
巴拉克編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(imp. & p. p.) of Diminish
海伦娜編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- 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 reddleman watched his form as it diminished to a speck on the road and became absorbed in the thickening films of night. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- I shall, however, if it is not diminished by some accident before my death, leave a considerable estate among my descendants and relations. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- 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.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Birkin, white and diminished, looked on as if he were displeased. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- But the rents of every class of houses for which the competition was diminished, would necessarily be more or less reduced. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The labour necessary to bring the lands to this sort of culture, employed and fed the offcasts of the diminished manufactories. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She suffered when she felt her day was diminished, she felt she had missed her life. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Her appetite was diminished; she knew the reason. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He had diminished the distance rapidly, but not so rapidly as to come up with Monseigneur on the road. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Susan uttered the lugubrious discourse three times slowly, and when it was completed the image had considerably diminished. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- 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. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- Deerhurst's stock of assurance was not to be diminished by two mere boys. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- The angle may be diminished if the bore of the tube is increased. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- John did not find Meg's beauty diminished, though she beamed at him from behind the familiar coffee pot. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The impatience of Cedric had been rather enhanced than diminished by his confinement. 沃爾特·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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- So necessary are the visits of bees to many papilionaceous flowers, that their fertility is greatly diminished if these visits be prevented. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
海伦娜編輯