| 词汇 | diminishing |
| 释义 | diminishing present participle ofdiminish 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。 We've seen our house diminish greatly/sharply/substantially in value over the last six months.在最近6个月里，我们这座房屋的价格暴跌。 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 damp dwindling ease ease someone's mindidiom ease up/off fall away reducible reduction resize retreat rightsize telescope tumble Examples of diminishingdiminishing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. This is because longitudinal evaluations of behavioral functioning that are indexed to age-matched norms provide profiles of emerging and diminishing symptoms over time. 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. On the near side the skirt has a great effect in increasing or diminishing the apparent size and form of the rider. The insolubility of dyes on "fast" attachment to fiber was compared with diminishing solubility as double salts were formed. The outward current has a constant or slightly diminishing amplitude as the oocyte matures. It could label the freelancer as out-of-touch and ' backward ', and lead to diminishing work. Even if courts continued to sit, they did so with diminishing effectiveness. What is revealed though by the curves is that values above these figures have a diminishing limited effect on the probability that therapy is cost-effective. For example, there may be a diminishing marginal utility for injured parties that ought not be factored into the compensation that is owed. The second: architecture's diminishing importance relative to reality. We restrict all factors devoted to the accumulation of human capital in order to exhibit diminishing returns. The descriptive claim is that individual preferences themselves are convex; that they exhibit generalized diminishing marginal utility. The income and religiosity variables are logged because we expect their effects to display diminishing returns at their highest values. The research to date suggests that this alarmist view of drastically diminishing welfare programmes or rising populist expectations needs to be substantially revised. 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. |
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