Diminishing
[di'miniʃiŋ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so; 'diminishing returns'; 'his diminishing respect for her' .
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解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diminish
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例句/造句/用法:
- 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.
- The only way of diminishing the evil is either to limit a man in his use of his property, or to insist that he shall lend at his own risk. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In her eyes Tracy Tupman was a youth; she viewed his years through a diminishing glass. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The sabre-toothed tiger was diminishing towards extinction. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Ursula looked with hatred on the buffers of the diminishing wagon. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Their use on many other vehicles has accomplished his objects, of lessening the power required to draw carriages, rendering the motion easier, and diminishing the noise. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Thus he lay through the diminishing days and lengthening nights of the whole drear month of November. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The scarcity of a dear year, by diminishing the demand for labour, tends to lower its price, as the high price of provisions tends to raise it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He also carried his small triangular shield, broad enough at the top to protect the breast, and from thence diminishing to a point. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Then I glanced below me, and there I saw a rapidly diminishing circle of light--the mouth of the opening above the phosphorescent radiance of Omean. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- They were not only more surly; they were diminishing the output, and it became impossible to manage the works. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Then there was a great swerve at the bottom, when they swung as it were in a fall to earth, in the diminishing motion. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The quantity sown per acre is governed by simply increasing or diminishing the speed of the feed wheel. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The merchant or monied man makes money by lending money to government, and instead of diminishing, increases his trading capital. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- London did not contain above a thousand inhabitants; and this number was continually diminishing. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It abated because, among other influences, the social differences between patricians and plebeians were diminishing. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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