dwindle
dwindle 英 [ˈdwɪndl] 美 [ˈdwɪndl]
v. 减少；变小
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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- v. 减少；变小
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1. dwindling audiences
越来越少的观众
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2. 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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3. Membership of the club has dwindled from 70 to 20.
俱乐部会员人数已从 70 减少到 20。
- 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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