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
- Yet the supply of other safe assets has been dwindling.
不过，其他安全资产的供应一直在减少。 - Red Talons guard the dwindling wolf packs across the world.
红色魔爪越过世界保护那些日益缩小的狼组织。 - 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。 - 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。 - The chancellor of the Exchequer groaned about our dwindling dollar resources.
财政大臣为我们日益减少的美元储备而叫苦。 - 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。 - 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。 - Hunting aside, the number of frogs already were dwindling in Montserrat because of the active volcano.
将捕猎放在一旁不谈，由于活火山，在蒙特塞拉特这种青蛙的数目已经不断减少。 - In science and technology lies the answer to the problems of dwindling resources.
在科学和技术中蕴藏着解决日益减少的资源问题的答案。