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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Failing health dwindles ambition.
  健康衰退使人丧志。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• The impact of cash-for-clunkers will fade, however, as the number of those eligible and willing to participate dwindles.
  然而，随着有资格且愿意参与旧车换现金计划的人数减少，该计划的影响力也将逐渐消退。
• 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。