Dwindle
['dwɪnd(ə)l] or ['dwɪndl]
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.
(v. t.) To make less; to bring low.
(v. t.) To break; to disperse.
(n.) The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy.
錄入:朱莉
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. [1]. Diminish, decrease, lessen, shrink, grow less, grow little.[2]. Sink, degenerate, decline, decay, fall away, fall off.
v. a. Diminish, decrease, lessen, make less.
編輯:梅森
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Pine, waste, diminish, decrease, fall_off, decline, melt
ANT:Expand, enlarge, increase, grow, flourish, augment, develop
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解釋/意思:
v.i. to grow less: to waste away: to grow feeble: to become degenerate.—v.t. to lessen.—n. decline.—n. Dwin′dlement.
整理:米莉
例句/造句/用法:
- Then, as the creature's legs appear and its tail is absorbed, it begins to use its lungs, and its gills dwindle and vanish. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Then it was that I began, if I may so Shakespearianly express myself, to dwindle, peak, and pine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I have said that the West is still moved by the tapering impulse of the pioneer, and I have ventured to predict that this would soon dwindle into an agricultural toryism. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He felt that the end of time was come; he knew that one by one we should dwindle into nothingness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Towards the end of October it dwindled away, and was in some degree replaced by a typhus, of hardly less virulence. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- If he were ever a big old man, he has shrunk into a little old man; if he were always a little old man, he has dwindled into a less old man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It was not so with me; and the question of rank and right dwindled to insignificance in my eyes, when I pictured the scene of suffering Athens. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Their retainers became consequently less numerous, and, by degrees, dwindled away altogether. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In its light everything else dwindled and fell away from her. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- As the waters of the planet dried and the seas receded, all other resources dwindled until life upon the planet became a constant battle for survival. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- As the six evenings had dwindled away, to five, to four, to three, to two, I had become more and more appreciative of the society of Joe and Biddy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- They became a weapon against the dwindling power of the Mongolian nomads, first in Turkestan and then across Siberia as far as the Amur. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Their relations with the dwindling empire of Constantinople remained for some centuries tolerantly hostile. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- With the downfall of the Mongolian (Yuan) dynasty (1368), the dwindling opportunity of the Christian missions passed altogether. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Most of the other fires within the wide horizon were also dwindling weak. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- It is possible to trace the dwindling succession of many of the small Kans who became independent during this period, almost down to the present time. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- His small capital was dwindling. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Europe is bankrupt, and people's pockets rustle with paper money whose purchasing power dwindles as they walk about with it. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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