| 词汇 | diminution |
| 释义 | diminution noun[ C or U ] formaluk /ˌdɪm.ɪˈnjuː.ʃən/ us /ˌdɪm.əˈnuː.ʃən/ reduction in size or importance: 减少；降低 diminution inRegular exercise can result in a general diminution in stress levels.经常锻炼可以全面缓解精神压力。 The company suffered a diminution in profits.该公司处于利润萎缩的境况。 diminution ofDiminution of the vehicle’s value caused by damage to it, or repair of it, is not covered by insurance. 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 diminution | Business Englishdiminution noun[ C or U ] formaluk /ˌdɪmɪˈnjuːʃən/ us /-əˈnuː-/ a reduction in size, importance, or value: After an accident, a vehicle will suffer a diminution in value. Examples of diminutiondiminution The volume of sound, though not to any extent distorted, had suffered a diminution of perspective. Then the first half of the closing motif is subjected to progressive diminution. Overall, we see a diminution of women's identity as workers. This diminution in the scale is accompanied by an augmentation in the angular velocity according to the conservation of angular momentum. One profound change has been the diminution of the labour union movement. This was a period of growing national consciousness and a diminution of regional identities in his view. Diminution of one's cognitive or evaluative powers, and so on, is not the standard effect of offensive conduct. He covers a period of six hundred years with no diminution of information, or easy generalisations. His argument that internalization must occur in all possible cases, or suffer severe diminution of importance, is not persuasive. There is a drastic diminution of population size and a considerable proportionate increase in the older age groups. A diminution of the set of quotable pieces must, other factors held constant, lead to an expansion of citation density. There is little evidence that the proportion of the comparatively more employable underwent a notable diminution. Although it may be said that the diminution of libido in itself is a contraceptive force, to most men it is aesthetically and intellectually unacceptable. We use the term preferential solvation to describe the accumulation or diminution of components near or at the surface of the protein. If secularization does not necessarily imply rationality, then desecularization does not necessarily imply a diminution of rational thinking. 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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