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
- Corporate donations from the city are dwindling, and falling property prices mean the value of legacies is diminishing.
该城市公司的捐赠减少，下降的财产价格意味这遗产的价值缩水。 - Japanese newspapers have a large readership but are facing dwindling advertising revenues and falling circulation.
日本的报纸拥有庞大的读者基础，但它们的广告收入日渐下滑，发行量也不断减少。 - Are fish stocks dwindling?
鱼类在减少吗？ - 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。 - 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。 - Exports are dwindling and the trade deficit is swelling
出口在缩减，贸易赤字在增长。 - 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。 - High oil prices and dwindling resources have put a rocket under the price of equipment and services providers and triggered a wave of consolidation.
高企的油价和日渐稀缺的资源，为油田设备和服务供应商的股价安装了火箭发动机，并引发该行业一轮整合大潮。 - 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。 - 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。