Dwindled

例句/造句/用法:

• 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.
• He was still in the forest, and the numbers of his lost companions had dwindled to very few. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Below these in force, above them in pitch, a dwindled voice strove hard at a husky tune, which was the peculiar local sound alluded to. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• No one came to talk to her, and one by one the group dwindled away till she was left alone. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• The routine conception dwindled, and the Roosevelt appointees went at issues as problems to be solved. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• Fifty years after Aristotle's death the Lyceum had already dwindled to insignificance. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• But the kingdom of death put them all to scorn, they dwindled into their true vulgar silliness in face of it. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• She had a sense of deeper empoverishment--of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions dwindled into insignificance. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• But by now the competition had become so keen and the cost of manufacturing so heavy that the field dwindled quickly. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.

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