dwindled
['dwindl]
[ dwindled ]
v. 减少, 缩小
例句与用法:
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。
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。
Drought has dwindled the crops.
干旱使农作物歉收。
My money had dwindled away.
我的钱渐渐花光了。
词形变化:
动词过去式: dwindled | 动词过去分词: dwindled | 动词现在分词: dwindling | 动词第三人称单数: dwindles |
dwindled
■After 1366 the English language ordained in them dwindled away.
1366年以后,法定的英语就越来越不景气了。
■A thin thread of path dwindled and finally disappeared as it climbed the steep slope of the down.
一条小径越远显得越细,在爬上土丘的陡坡时终于消失了。
■Yet Treasury figures show the number of banks taking TARP capital has dwindled to a trickle.
不过,财政部的数据显示,利用TARP资金的银行数量已降至微不足道的水平。
■nor were they like the hidalgos of Madrid,who dwindled in-to pigmies.
也有别于马德里的贵族,他们已沦为无足轻重的人。
■Public opinion polls show that Barack Obama's once-significant lead over Hillary Clinton in the Southern state of North Carolina has dwindled in the past few days.
争夺民主党总统候选人提名的克林顿和奥巴马正在寻求印地安纳州与北卡罗来纳州的关键选票,这两州将在下星期二举行初选。
■And people actually wonder why church populations have dwindled over the last few decades.
事隔几十年,我却倾向认同这样的看法!!
■Five years have passed, a once successful photojournalist Fai is now dwindled to snapping pictures of celebrities and expose their scandals as a paparazzi.
五年后,飞转行为狗仔队,遇上了年轻跳脱的雪。
■His wealth dwindled to nothingness .
人死后什么都不存在了吗?
■Regrettably , today we find the key logo above the DBS-POSBank ATMs much dwindled in size, and even the name of POSBank is missing from the ATM's screen.
今天,我们看到各角落的提款机上储蓄银行的标志已大幅度缩小,甚至名称也不在提款荧光屏上出现了。
■Hopes for their safety dwindled.
他们会平安无事的希望变得渺茫了。
■They had begun to expect four hundred dollars a week in change, but it soon dwindled to two hundred and fifty.
他们已经开始期望每个礼拜能有四百美元的零钱就可以了,但即便如此,所得到的钱还是减少到了两百五十元。
■Their vast fortune has dwindled away.
他们的大笔财产已逐渐减少。
■Their savings have dwindled away to nothing.
他们的存款已减到分文不剩。
■Their savings have dwindled (away) to nothing.
他们的存款已减少到分文不剩了.
■Their savings dwindled away.
他们的积蓄一点点地消耗殆尽了。
■His fame dwindled
他的名声低落了。
■His reputation dwindled down greatly.
他的声誉大减。
■His fortune dwindled to a few hundred pounds.
他的财产减少到几百英镑了。
■His wealth dwindled into nothing
他的财产化为乌有。
■His boon companions had dwindled away from his side, leaving the poor fellow without a soul to countenance him in sipping his liquor
他的酒友在他身边一个一个少了下去,使这可怜的家伙在举杯饮啜时没有一个人在旁替他助兴壮胆。
■His wealth dwindled into nothingness
他的钱财化为乌有。
■His body felt light to him, then it dwindled, vanished.
他觉得身子飘飘然,跟着这身子渐渐越缩越小就此没啦。
■Many resented him this privilege, which America has jealously guarded even as its contributions to the bank's funds have dwindled.
令人眼红的是,虽然美国对世行基金的捐助减少甚多,美国仍把持着这个特权。
■Soon the life span of the larger headed humans also dwindled, and some became ill of previously unknown diseases.
但很快,大头颅人类的寿命也缩短了,有一些是由于之前未知的疾病而病倒。
■However we know from our own experience upon earth that holographic information has dwindled and dwindled over time, and even inside the Great Central Sun.
但是我们从地球上自己的体验中知道,全息信息随时间一再被减少,甚至大中央太阳内也是这样。
■But as the number of made-from-scratch, at-home meals we consume has dwindled, we've all unwittingly become sodium junkies.
但是,随着自制食物、在家吃饭的次数逐渐减少,我们在不知不觉中变成嗜盐者。
■But those prospects dwindled, leaving J.P.Morgan in the prime position to acquire the firm.
但这种希望渐渐渺茫,只有摩根大通占据了收购该公司的首要位置。
■But the ruse became increasingly difficult tomaintain as the company's fortunes dwindled.
但随着该公司财富的缩水,这种欺骗手法越来越难以隐瞒。
■Failing health dwindled ambition.
体弱雄心减。
■Though the friendship dwindled away, much to Melville's regret, it was a vital tonic to him while he was engaged on Moby Dick
使梅尔维尔遗憾的是,后来二人的交情日疏,可是在他写《白鲸》时,这段友情对于他却是十分重要的。
■Membership of the club has dwindled from 70 to 20.
俱乐部会员人数已从70减少到 20。
■The party made it clear that the party secretaries were to remain in overall command, and the peasants' enthusiasm dwindled.
党明确的指出党的书记仍然是一把手,这样农民的热情就又消退了。
■The newspaper said the moves were necessary to cut costs, as its advertising revenue has dwindled as a result of the economic slowdown.
公司表示,由于金融海啸,广告收益减少,需要裁员缩减开支。
■Its purchases helped push CBOT soybean futures to lofty levels as U.S. supplies from last year’s harvest dwindled.
其采购量随着美国上年度作物供应的减少而帮助把CBOT的大豆期货价格推到极高的水平。
■The numbers attending these meetings have dwindled away(down)terribly
出席这些会议的人数急剧减少。
■By 2004 the number of asylum-seekers had dwindled, but Britain was one of three EU countries to open its job market to workers from the European Union's eight new member states.
到2004年,难民数量已经大幅减少了,但是英国是对八个新的欧盟成员开放就业市场的欧盟三个成员国之一。
■The crowds had dwindled to just a few thousand by Wednesday morning.
到星期三上午,示威人群已减少到数千人。
■Women selling porn disc on Qianjin 4th Road were no longer there. They moved to another street and their numbers dwindled.
前进四路上兜售黄碟的女人们不见了,跑到另外一条街去了。好像少了很多。
■The prospect of Indianapolis returning to stage a United States grand prix in future dwindled yet further this week.
印第安纳波利斯的前景返回阶段美国大奖赛在今后进一步减少本星期.
■Historians say the animals, whose numbers have dwindled, have lived in Peru's coastal areas for more than 4,000 years.
历史学家说这种数目日渐减少的动物已经在秘鲁的海滨地区生活了4,000年以上。
■From a population believed as large as 1 million before whites arrived, Aborigines have dwindled to some 400,000 in a mostly white population of 19 million.
原有一百万的人口的原住民,在白人登陆之后渐渐变少到40万人,而白人却有1千9百万的人口。
■Polls show a very tight race in Indiana, and that Senator O.'s comfortable two-digit lead in the polls in North Carolina has dwindled down to single digits.
参议员克林顿周五获得了I.州最大的报纸“印第安纳波利斯之星”的认可,该报纸称赞了她的经历和她善于抓住主要问题的能力。
■Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily dwindled down.
又过了几周,随着他学会控制自己的怒火,钉子的数目日益减少。
■The protests against American beef imports began in early May and dwindled over the past two weeks.
反对美国牛肉进口的抗议是从五月初开始的,在过去的两周里抗议逐渐减少。
■Then it gradually dwindled down.
后来钉钉子的次数逐渐减少。
■Usage dwindled after he moved to Kansas City, Mo., to work for newspapers and radio.
后来,他搬到密苏里州的堪萨斯市为报纸和电台工作后,使用“特权”的次数才慢慢减少了。
■The gloom of the room closed in on her as the wick again dwindled.
周围的黑暗向她包围过来。 灯光因了灯花增大而变得更微弱了。
■The number of government-owned or controlled corporations or agencies up for privatization dwindled.
国有或国家控制的企业或机关在私有化考虑下而缩减。
■Polls show a very tight race in Indiana, and that Senator Obama's comfortable two-digit lead in the polls in North Carolina has dwindled down to single digits.
在印第安纳州的选票表明这是一场紧张的比赛,奥巴马参议员在北卡罗来纳州两位数的领先优势已经慢慢减少到一位数了。
■Clinton continues to hold a lead in public oponion polls in Pennsylvania in advance of Tuesday's primary, but her lead has dwindled in recent weeks.
在宾州周二初选之前,希拉里在民意调查中保持领先,但是最近几周来她的领先优势有所下降。