dwindle
英['dwɪnd(ə)l]
美['dwɪndl]
- vi. 减少；变小
- vt. 使缩小，使减少
词态变化
第三人称单数: dwindles;过去式: dwindled;过去分词: dwindled;现在分词: dwindling;
助记提示
谐音“短的”。
2. 谐音“蹲倒”，身形变小
中文词源
dwindle 减少
词源同dye, 死亡，消逝。-le, 表反复，逐渐。即减少，逐渐消亡。
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 1. 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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- 2. 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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- 3. 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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- 4. 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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- 5. 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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