dwindle
vi. 減少,變小,縮小; 衰落,變壞,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...
工廠僱員總數已經從 4,000 多人減少到幾百人。
Exports are dwindling and the trade deficit is swelling...
出口在縮減,貿易赤字在增長。
1. become smaller or lose substance;
decrease, diminish, lessen, reduce, dwindle
這些協詞的共同含義是"減少,變少"。
Females become rare, causing fewer young dinosaurs to be born and species to dwindle to extinction.
雌性恐龍變得非常稀少, 導致越來越少幼恐龍的出生,以致這個物種數量日漸稀少,直至滅絕.
The minute you begin to forgive yourself, you start to dwindle.
[人都是在原諒自己的那一分鐘開始懈怠. ]
Savings will begin to dwindle as retirees run them down.
退休人員會使中國的儲蓄率開始下降.
The number of people going to the cinema seems to dwindle steadily.
看電影的人數似乎在逐漸下降.
Bribery has begun to dwindle since the OECD convention, says Transparency International, a pressure group.
壓力團體“透明國際(TransparencyInternational)”表示,自從締結“經合組織合約”之後, 賄賂已經開始減少.