dwindle
vi. 减少,变小,缩小; 衰落,变坏,退化
If something dwindles, 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。
1. become smaller or lose substance;
decrease, diminish, lessen, reduce, dwindle
这些协词的共同含义是"减少,变少"。
Females become rare, causing fewer young dinosaurs to be born and species to dwindle to extinction.
雌性恐龙变得非常稀少, 导致越来越少幼恐龙的出生,以致这个物种数量日渐稀少,直至灭绝.
The minute you begin to forgive yourself, you start to dwindle.
[人都是在原谅自己的那一分钟开始懈怠. ]
Savings will begin to dwindle as retirees run them down.
退休人员会使中国的储蓄率开始下降.
The number of people going to the cinema seems to dwindle steadily.
看电影的人数似乎在逐渐下降.
Bribery has begun to dwindle since the OECD convention, says Transparency International, a pressure group.
压力团体“透明国际(TransparencyInternational)”表示,自从缔结“经合组织合约”之后, 贿赂已经开始减少.