| 词汇 | diminish |
| 释义 | diminish verb[ I or T ] uk /dɪˈmɪn.ɪʃ/ us /dɪˈmɪn.ɪʃ/ C1 to reduce or be reduced in size or importance: 减少，减小，降低 I don't want to diminish her achievements, but she did have a lot of help.我不想贬低她的成就，但她确实得到了很多帮助。 These memories will not be diminished by time.这些记忆不会随着时间的流逝而淡漠。 What he did has seriously diminished him in many people's eyes.他的所作所为严重损害了他在许多人眼里的形象。 diminish greatlyWe've seen our house diminish greatly in value over the last six months. diminish significantlyPumpkins must be harvested and sold before Halloween or their value diminishes significantly. Later on in life the sex drive tends to diminish.人到晚年性欲往往会逐步减退。 Rising unemployment has diminished the bargaining power of people with jobs.失业率的不断上升削弱了在职人员与雇主讨价还价的能力。 The inaccuracy of the missiles greatly diminishes their effectiveness.这些导弹的不精确性大大减弱了其效果。 Her popularity as a singer has diminished since the glory days of the 1980s. Fresh snow meant that our chances of reaching the summit slowly diminished. Becoming and making smaller or less abridgment attenuate attenuated attenuating attenuation compress contraction dwindling ease ease someone's mindidiom ease up/off fall away halve reduce reducible reduction resize retreat trough tumble diminish | American Dictionarydiminish verb[ I/T ] us/dəˈmɪn·ɪʃ/ to reduce or be reduced in size or importance: [ I ]The threat of inflation is diminishing. [ T ]A single-payer system would diminish the bureaucratic cost of health care. diminutionnoun[ C/U ]us/ˌdɪm·əˈnu·ʃən/ diminish | Business Englishdiminish verb[ I or T ] uk /dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/us to reduce or be reduced in size, importance, or value: If consumers start losing confidence, it will diminish demand for household goods. Investors can diversify their holdings in order to diminish risk. Over a period of several years, these securities diminished in value and the corporation went bankrupt. Examples of diminishdiminish Proliferation of granule cell precursors in the dentate gyrus of adult monkeys is diminished by stress. The overestimation diminishes with an increasing number of loci, but is still about 0.02 even when 100 loci are used. On the face of it, strife had been diminishing. Based on simulations, they observe that recombination together with synergistic or diminishing epistasis increases or decreases permissible mutation rates and genome sizes. First, the likelihood of subsequent non-attendance may be diminished. Certainly, over a long historical period it might be expected that unrecorded separations would have diminished as a proportion of all marriage breakdowns. Religion remained a significant determinant of intended family size but its effect had diminished. The effect of employment status seems to have diminished during the decade. Although collective work parties have diminished since the ' time of the elders ', they still take place frequently, particularly among certain categories of people. The rate of production of thyroxine is diminished. In theory, a free market would cope with this by raising prices to a point where demand diminished to match supply. However, the opposite trend, albeit diminished, was seen at the soma, where the unconfined distribution was more effective than the clustered distribution. The heightened baseline pain state reached a peak at 3 weeks post-injury, and diminished back to baseline by 1 year. Removal of the cotyledons strongly diminished enzymatic activity in the embryonic axis. The cytokinin or ethylene requirements for overcoming thermoinhibition of lettuce germination can also be eliminated or diminished by removing or weakening the endosperm. See all examples of diminish These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
| 随便看 |
|
反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。