dwindling
英 [ˈdwɪndlɪŋ]
美 [ˈdwɪndlɪŋ]
v. (逐渐)减少,变小,缩小
dwindle的现在分词
现在分词:dwindling
BNC.14053 / COCA.10969
柯林斯词典
- VERB (数量上)减少,缩小
If somethingdwindles, it becomes smaller, weaker, or less in number.- 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。 - Exports are dwindling and the trade deficit is swelling...
出口在缩减,贸易赤字在增长。 - 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。
- The factory's workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred...
英英释义
noun
- a becoming gradually less
- there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family
adj
- gradually decreasing until little remains
双语例句
- Dwindling water supplies and drought comes just as China's wealth is increasing demand for more water.
在水资源供应减少、旱灾出现之际,中国的用水需求正在日益上升。 - They discussed the effect of dwindling wetlands on ducks and geese.
他们讨论过沼泽地带缩小封鸭和鹅的影响。 - My own response to a longer life and dwindling wealth is simple.
我自己对寿命变长和财富减少的回应很简单。 - With oil production in decline, the funds with which government could create a system in which power stations and refineries function, businesses thrive and services are delivered, are in dwindling supply.
由于石油产量下降,政府能够用来创建一个合理体系的资金供应日渐减少。在该体系下,电站和炼厂将得以运行,企业能够蓬勃发展,服务也能得以交付。 - Shark was often prayed to if there were dwindling supplies of fish to feed the populace.
如果海洋中的鱼类供应减少而无法养活人口的话,人们就经常会去祈祷鲨鱼。 - The dwindling number of supplier nations could encourage the formation of an OPEC of gas.
天然气供应国数量的不断减少,可能会鼓励“天然气欧佩克”的问世。 - And the dwindling capital becomes smaller and smaller until it no longer supplies even our basic needs.
随着本金的逐渐减少,最后可能会连我们最基本的生活需要都满足不了了。 - This has led some successful authors to worry about dwindling profits.
这让一些成功的作家担心收入会减少。 - The number of people who live on the island is rapidly dwindling.
住在这个岛上的人口数目急速减少。 - Polar bears are in danger, numbers dwindling in the Arctic because of melting ice.
北极熊现在很危险,因为北极冰雪融化使得它的数量在减少。