dwindles

英 [ˈdwɪndlz]

美 [ˈdwɪndlz]

v.  (逐渐)减少，变小，缩小
dwindle的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB (数量上)减少,缩小
  If somethingdwindles, it becomes smaller, weaker, or less in number.
  1. 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。
  2. Exports are dwindling and the trade deficit is swelling...
     出口在缩减，贸易赤字在增长。
  3. He is struggling to come to terms with his dwindling authority.
     他正努力适应自己权力被削弱这一局面。

双语例句

• An internal sense of righteousness dwindles into an external concern for reputation Clinical Application of Intracardiac Echocardiography in Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
  内心的正义缩小而转成外在对声誉的关心心腔内超声在心房颤动射频消融中的应用
• Moreover, the moment the client firm of the guarantor becomes creditworthy in its own right, it will end the relationship with the Guarantor at just the point when the risk surrounding it dwindles.
  而且，担保公司的企业客户树立起良好信誉之时即相关风险降低之时也就是双方关系解除之日。
• Greece will this month launch a multibillion-dollar bond in the US in its hunt for new investors, selling itself for the first time as an emerging market country as demand for its debt dwindles in Europe.
  为了寻找新的投资者，希腊本月将在美国启动数十亿美元的债券发行，这是它首次将自己作为一个新兴市场国家进行推销，此时欧洲对该国债务的需求十分低迷。
• It is also found that the increase of damping of the cable dwindles the frequency bandwidth of large-amplitude vibrations and reduces the amplitude of vibrations, but enlarges the tension fluctuation.
  增加斜拉索的阻尼可抑制其振幅，缩小其发生大幅振动的频率范围，但其张力波幅却相应增加。
• As the supply of migrant labor dwindles, the workshop of theworld is embarking on a migration of its own.
  由于农民工人数的减少，这个号称是世界工厂的国度也开始了自己的转变。
• As regard to sea-fishing, more than 90 areas of coastal waters in our country in fact has little resources to use at present, and far sea-fishing area dwindles greatly.
  就海洋捕捞来说，目前我国近海90%以上的水域基本上已无鱼可捕。近海可捕渔业资源极度匮乏，远海可捕海域大大缩小。
• Rates are rising, as depression psychology dwindles.
  随着衰退心理消退，利率不断上升。
• In the urban development, the model performances of survival crisis are the tendency that the city space expands infinitely and the city land resource dwindles increasingly along with a series of contradictions initiates from this.
  在城市发展问题上，生存危机的典型表现是城市平面空间无限扩大的趋势与城市土地资源愈来愈紧缺以及由此引发的一系列矛盾。
• Failing health dwindles ambition.
  健康衰退使人丧志。
• Prices for copper in both London and New York Futures exchanges have gone up as worldwide supply dwindles.
  由于全球铜的供应能力逐渐下降，促使伦敦和纽约期货交易所的铜价攀升。