dwindle

dwindle，英語單詞，主要用作不及物動詞、及物動詞，作不及物動詞時譯為“減少；變小”，作及物動詞時譯為“使縮小，使減少”。

基本介紹

• 外文名：dwindle
• 詞性：不及物動詞、及物動詞
• 英式發音：[ˈdwɪndl]
• 美式發音：[ˈdwɪndl]

單詞用法

柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典

dwindle /ˈdwɪndəl/ CET6+ TEM4 ( dwindling, dwindled, dwindles )

1.V-I If something dwindles, it becomes smaller, weaker, or less in number. 縮小; 減少

短語搭配

dwindle e 縮小 ; 漸漸減少

dwindle down 逐漸減少 ; 減少 ; 逐漸變小 ; 縮小

Fortunes Dwindle 財富集中

dwindle into 縮小成

dwindle to 逐漸減少到

dwindle wind 風吹過

dwindle away 減少 ; 消失

dwindle out 逐漸消失

proliferate dwindle 增生

雙語例句

• I dwindle, thin as a golden flower. 我縮少，儘管薄的一朵金色的花。
• The windfall will eventually dwindle. 暴利稅最終將下降。
• Basically, everything began to dwindle. 基本上一切都開始褪色。
• This windfall will eventually dwindle. 此類僥倖所得終將減少。
• As the rivers dwindle, the conflicts could spread. 河流在減少，衝突卻在擴大。
• They watched its light dwindle and disappear. 他們看著它的光亮變的微弱最終消失了。
• The number of people going to the cinema seems to dwindle steadily . 看電影的人數似乎在逐漸下降。
• The IIF expects that flows will dwindle to a paltry $165 billion this year. 國際金融協會(IIF)預計，今年私人資本的淨流入將減少到區區1650以美金。
• But soda companies won't just sit quietly and let their profits dwindle. 不過蘇打水公司可不會坐視不管，任憑利潤下降。
• Once forest cover does start increasing, the rate of extinction should dwindle. 一旦森林覆蓋開始增加，滅絕的速度應該變小。
• Walking across the graveyardI hear the city's traffic dwindle to a low hum. 穿過墓地，我聽到城市的喧囂聲逐漸沉寂為一片嗡嗡聲。
• Many would-be retirees have watched their savings dwindle and health care costs soar. 許多將要退休的人，看到存款縮小，而健保開支猛增。
• But as the online holdings of Google Books increases, will delivery request traffic dwindle? 但當GoogleBooks線上館藏的日益增加時，是否會減少傳遞請求數量？
• Worse is to come. The IIF expects that flows will dwindle to a paltry $165 billion this year. 更為嚴重的就來了，IIF預計今年將降至1 650美元。
• As in the Oligocene before it, grasslands continued to expand and forests to dwindle in extent. 在先前的漸新世，草地的面積增大，森林的面積減少。
• Bribery has begun to dwindle since the OECD convention, says Transparency International, a pressure group. 壓力團體“透明國際(Transparency International)”表示，自從締結“經合組織契約”之後，賄賂已經開始減少。
• If we try to avoid the confrontation then creativity, motivation, hope and positivity start to dwindle. 要是我們試圖迴避挑戰，那么創造力、動力、希望和積極性就都會開始減弱。
• The boost from firms rebuilding their inventories after running them down in the recession will dwindle. 在經濟不景氣的時，企業重建庫存的動力將會下降。
• Unfortunately, the longer that the credit crunch continues, the more those reserves will start to dwindle. 不幸的是，信貸緊縮持續的越久，更多的儲備會下降。
• They will always be valuable (possibly even more valuable) while men's supposed natural attributes dwindle. 當男人的那些所謂自然特質逐漸式微之時，女人的那些才是有價值的(很有可能會更有價值)。
• Stars smaller than eight solar masses simply expand into red giants and then dwindle away into white dwarfs. 那些不到8個太陽質量的小恆星就會擴大成紅巨星，最終縮小成白矮星。
• This hits Britain hard as North Sea reserves dwindle and the country imports an ever-greater share of its energy. 因為北海儲量減少，國家能源更加依賴進口，英國能源受到了沉重打擊。
• Although LEDs will be more profitable than incandescent bulbs the replacement market will eventually dwindle. 儘管LED燈比白熾燈利潤空間更大，但燈源替代市場鐘會趨於縮小。
• As farmers brought their crops to the city by bicycle or bus, long food lines began to dwindle and then disappear. 農民用腳踏車或汽車把糧食販賣到城市，排隊買糧的城裡人慢慢減少，最後完全消失。youdao
• Authors see a new way to nurture fans and make money, even as publishing budgets dwindle. (Unbound's profits are split 50-50.) 出版預算日減的當下，作者發現了一種新方式，既可培養冬粉，又能掙錢(Unbound網站利潤採取五五分成方式)。
• On shorter routes, their advantages dwindle: they can neither transform a region nor replicate the advantages of wider networks. 在較短途的線路，高鐵優勢減弱：它們既不能改變一個地區，也不能複製更廣泛網路的優勢。