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

• 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。
• Rates are rising, as depression psychology dwindles.
  随着衰退心理消退，利率不断上升。
• 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。
• 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。
• HONG KONG& As demand dwindles, steel prices in China have fallen 12 percent in the first five weeks of this year, almost as much as in all of 2014.
  香港&随着需求的减少，中国钢材价格在今年的头五周下降了12%，几乎相当于2014年全年的降幅。
• The total need at hybrid rice market dwindles steadily, and market competition has become fierce.
  国内杂交水稻种子市场需求总量稳中有降，市场竞争更加激烈。
• The expropriation influences the choice of financing pattern, leads to high concentration of ownership, impairs rights and interests of small shareholders and affects the efficiency of corporate governance, thus dwindles the value of corporation.
  掠夺行为影响了公司对融资模式的选择，促使股权高度集中，损害了小股东利益，影响到公司治理的有效性，进而造成公司价值降低。
• It could now face a bank crisis as household confidence in its banks dwindles, while unemployment will hover above 20 per cent this year.
  随着家庭对本国银行的信心减弱，希腊当前可能面临一场银行业危机。另一方面，今年失业率将徘徊在20%以上。
• Over time, this telomerase dwindles and eventually the telomere shortens and the cell becomes inactive.
  随着时间延长，端粒末端酶会减少，最终端粒也会缩短，细胞就不能继续分裂。
• Then in this Yuan coexistences, does not have the time as if which the standard, many values judgements all dwindles, the design domain activity and its develops whether has some kind intrinsic, the inevitable criterion, the direction and the criterion?
  那么在这个多元共存，仿佛没有标准、许多价值判断都失去意义的时代，设计领域的活动及其发展是否存在某种内在、必然的准则、方向和尺度？