decline

单词decline

基本解释

v.: 拒绝；下降；谢绝；衰落
n.: 衰退；倾斜；衰弱(病)；(物价的)下落
网络: 婉言谢绝；下降经济衰退；已拒绝

英汉解释

• 斜坡,下坡

• (物价的)下落

• 倾斜

• 贬值

• 衰弱(病),(特指)肺病

• 衰退,减退

• 衰退,衰败,日趋没落,黄昏的时分

• 下降,堕落

• 【语法】变化(名词、代名词、形容词的)词尾

• 堕落,退步;落魄

• 接近终了;近尾声

• 进行词形变化

• 谢绝,拒绝

• 下跌,下倾

• 衰落,衰老

• 使下倾,使下降,使歪斜,使(头)低垂

• 下倾,下降;跌落;歪斜;(树枝等)下垂,(头)低下

• 衰落,衰微,每况愈下,健康衰退

词性分析

• 过去分词：declined

• 现在分词：declining

• 第三人称单数：declines

单词搭配

• adj.+n.:

  sharp decline,steep decline,rapid decline,slow decline,gradual decline

• v.+n.:

  decline offer,cause decline,hasten decline,halt decline,prevent decline

• adv.+v.:

  gradually decline,steadily decline

同义词

v.refuseturn downrejectpass upweakenn.deteriorationfalling-offfallofffalldegeneration

反义词

v.acceptimproven.improvement

例句

• One lawyer, who declined to be named, said legal advocates would have been afraid to take on such a defense.

  一位不愿透露姓名的律师称，辩护律师们不敢为这些男子辩护。

• Local police declined to comment on the reasons for her detention or the conditions of her release.

  当地警方拒绝对她被拘留的原因以及她获释的条件发表评论。

• Another finding was that fertility rates have declined in those parts of Morocco and Turkey that export labour to Europe.

  报告的另一项发现是，在摩洛哥和土耳其向欧洲输出劳动力的地区，生育率有所下降。

• He gave the Chen family a contact number, but a police officer who answered the number declined to comment and said Li was unavailable.

  他给了老陈家一个联系电话，但是接听那个电话的警察官员拒绝对此事发表评论并称李刚接不了电话。

• He said he offered to let the inspector walk on the scaffold, but she declined and said she was afraid of heights.

  他说，他可以让承包商上脚手架上走一走，但是她拒绝了，说她恐高。

• Although investment-banking revenues have declined everywhere compared with a year ago, the drops have been less sharp in Asia.

  尽管投资银行的收入较前一年有所下降，但其亚洲地区的收益并没有出现急剧的降幅。

• Gui declined to put a value on a possible bid, but said Geely Holding was waiting for Ford to formally put Volvo up for sale.

  桂生悦拒绝对可能的竞购估价，但称吉利汽车母公司正在等待福特正式提出出售沃尔沃。

• The Times said the unit was on a covert mission to put the diplomat in touch with rebel leaders . Fox declined to comment on the report.

  《泰晤士报》称此次代表团与叛军的会晤是军方的秘密任务。福克斯拒绝对此报道发表评论。

• Busch IV declined to comment on both incidents for a 2008 profile of him in The Wall Street Journal.

  在《华尔街日报》2008年对布希四世作个人简介时，他拒绝就上述两次事件置评。

• I declined her offer and the next day I was busy compiling the name of every head-hunter I could find.

  我拒绝了她的邀约，第二天，我翻箱倒柜把所有能找到的猎头电话全找了出来。