dwindle

• vi. 减少；变小
• vt. 使缩小，使减少

词源同dye, 死亡，消逝。-le, 表反复，逐渐。即减少，逐渐消亡。

1. become smaller or lose substance;

"Her savings dwindled down"

dwindle (v.)

1590s, apparently diminutive and frequentative of Middle English dwinen "waste away, fade, vanish," from Old English dwinan, from Proto-Germanic *dwinan (cognates: Dutch dwijnen "to vanish," Old Norse dvina, Danish tvine, Low German dwinen), from PIE *dheu- (3) "to die" (see die (v.)). Related: Dwindled; dwindling.

decrease, diminish, lessen, reduce, dwindle

这些协词的共同含义是"减少，变少"。

decrease： 指逐渐地、不断地减少。

diminish： 侧重大小数量和重要性的不断减小，强调减小的部分。

lessen： 普通用词，与decrease近义。指数目、程度、价值、实力等的减少。

reduce： 普通用词，含义广。指数量、程度的降低或减少。

dwindle： 与decrease同义，指逐渐减小，但强调变得越来越少终至全无。

dwindling audiences

越来越少的观众

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Support for the party has dwindled away to nothing.

支持这个党派的人渐渐化为乌有。

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Membership of the club has dwindled from 70 to 20.

俱乐部会员人数已从70减少到20。

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The factory's workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred...

工厂雇员总数已经从 4,000 多人减少到几百人。

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Exports are dwindling and the trade deficit is swelling...

出口在缩减，贸易赤字在增长。

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Females become rare, causing fewer young dinosaurs to be born and species to dwindle to extinction.

雌性恐龙变得非常稀少, 导致越来越少幼恐龙的出生,以致这个物种数量日渐稀少,直至灭绝.

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The minute you begin to forgive yourself, you start to dwindle.

[人都是在原谅自己的那一分钟开始懈怠. ]

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Savings will begin to dwindle as retirees run them down.

退休人员会使中国的储蓄率开始下降.

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The number of people going to the cinema seems to dwindle steadily.

看电影的人数似乎在逐渐下降.

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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.

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In that day there will be no light ; the luminaries will dwindle.

亚14:6那日、必没有光.三光必退缩.

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Yet, as earth's other natural resources dwindle, nations eye the Antarctic as a final repository.

然而, 由于地球上其他自然资源的减少, 一些国家视南极洲为最后的宝库.

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His money dwindle away to nothing while traveling in europe.

在游欧期间,他花光了所有的钱.

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If I continues to endure you a little longer, I may 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.

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As gym classes dwindle, can kids keep fit?

健身课减少了, 孩子们怎么保持健康?

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" Yes, he has. With every advance, our numbers dwindle. "

“ 不, 他赢了. 他每前进一步, 我们的人数量就减少了. ”

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Allowing one axis of the ellipse to dwindle to zero, the crack limIt'solution is obtained.

将椭圆一轴缩小到零, 得到了裂纹情况的位错象力.

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Women usually had more than men, and the amount tended to dwindle with age.

女人通常比男人的棕色脂肪更多, 棕色脂肪的量随着年龄的增长而呈现减少的趋势.

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Over time electricity will dwindle and cease to be available to be harvested through any means.

经过一段时间,电力将会衰竭,并不再能通过任何方法而获得.

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Your social invitations will 10 dwindle and your circle of friends will undoubtedly shrink.

你接到的社交类邀请就会减少,朋友圈也会越来越小.

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When there is no rain for a long time, water supplies often dwindle.

结合上下文和生活常识可知很长时间不下雨的话, “水供应”时常会减少.

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It is interesting how even the closest of family ties dwindle into habitual friendship.

家人的紧密联系如何衰退成习惯的友谊关系,是一件有趣的事.

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