dwindle
dwindle 英 [ˈdwɪndl] 美 [ˈdwɪndl]
vi. 减少；变小 vt. 使缩小，使减少
进行时:dwindling 过去式:dwindled 过去分词:dwindled 第三人称单数:dwindles 名词复数:dwindles
- What do love, money, and the earth all have in common? All can dwindle, or shrink away, if we don't handle them properly.
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- vi. 减少；变小
- vt. 使缩小，使减少
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1. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the dairy industry which is not only shedding farmers every week, but losing its future workforce too, as the traditions of family succession dwindle.
在乳品行业，这种现象再明显不过了。 养殖奶牛的农民每一周都在减少，而且这一行业未来的劳动力也在不断减少，因为人们不再继承养奶牛的家业了。
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2. As the rivers dwindle, the conflicts could spread.
河流在减少，冲突却在扩大。
- dwindle (v.) 1590s, apparently diminutive and frequentative of Middle English dwinen "waste away, fade, vanish," from Old English dwinan, from Proto-Germanic *dwinan (source also of Dutch dwijnen "to vanish," Old Norse dvina, Danish tvine, Low German dwinen), from PIE *dheu- (3) "to die" (see die (v.)). Related: Dwindled; dwindling.
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