dwindle

单词dwindle

基本解释

v.: 变小
网络: 缩小；减少；逐渐减少

权威解释

• （逐渐）减少，变小，缩小:

  to become gradually less or smaller

英汉解释

• 失去意义

• 淡,日疏,黯然失色,大为退色

• 减小

• 衰落;变坏,退化

• 减少,变小,缩小;变瘦

• 减少,缩小,越来越小;下降

词性分析

• 过去分词：dwindled

• 现在分词：dwindling

• 第三人称单数：dwindles

同义词

v.decreasedeclinediminishfall offdrop

反义词

v.increase

例句

• But as public protests continued to dwindle without actually ending, the authorities said the incumbent would be sworn in early next month.

  但是随着公共抗议声逐渐减少（事实上并未停止），政府官员称，在任者将在下月早期进行宣誓就职。

• If I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife.

  假如我再容忍你下去的话，我可能会一步步退化至成为老婆也未可知。

• Qpinion polls suggest that the level of interest many Americans have in the war on terrorism is beginning to dwindle.

  民意测验显示，很多美国人对反恐怖主义战争的关注程度开始缩小。

• Over the next few months, attendance began to dwindle.

  接下来的几个月，与会者开始减少。

• Over the years therefore the harvest appeared to dwindle in dollar terms, and his debts grew.

  因此多年来，以美元计算，收获看上去在萎缩，而他的债务在增长。

• AS PUBLIC protest in Tehran seems to dwindle, at any rate on the streets, many Arab leaders are quietly exhaling a sigh of relief.

  随着在德黑兰的公众抗议活动，至少是街头抗议活动的逐步减少，许多阿拉伯国家领导人暗地里都松了一口气。

• The boost from firms rebuilding their inventories after running them down in the recession will dwindle.

  在经济不景气的时，企业重建库存的动力将会下降。

• Bribery has begun to dwindle since the OECD convention, says Transparency International, a pressure group.

  压力团体“透明国际（TransparencyInternational）”表示，自从缔结“经合组织合约”之后，贿赂已经开始减少。

• When that began to dwindle, so did life in the town, despite investment to regenerate its economy.

  当钢铁产业衰败，尽管有资金投入来复兴经济，小城却也遭到同样的命运。

• "Many firms are importing fewer raw materials, so their exports will dwindle accordingly, " he said.

  他还说，许多公司进口的原材料少了，出口量也将相应缩减。