dwindling
英 [ˈdwɪndlɪŋ]
美 [ˈdwɪndlɪŋ]
v. (逐渐)减少，变小，缩小
dwindle的现在分词
现在分词：dwindling
BNC.14053 / COCA.10969
柯林斯词典
- VERB (数量上)减少,缩小
If somethingdwindles, 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。 - He is struggling to come to terms with his dwindling authority.
他正努力适应自己权力被削弱这一局面。
- The factory's workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred...
英英释义
noun
- a becoming gradually less
- there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family
adj
- gradually decreasing until little remains
双语例句
- Corporate donations from the city are dwindling, and falling property prices mean the value of legacies is diminishing.
该城市公司的捐赠减少，下降的财产价格意味这遗产的价值缩水。 - My own response to a longer life and dwindling wealth is simple.
我自己对寿命变长和财富减少的回应很简单。 - With dwindling revenue and diminished resources, frustrated newspaper executives are looking for someone to blame.
面对不断缩水的收入和资源，屡屡受挫的报业管理人士正在找替罪羊。 - High oil prices and dwindling resources have put a rocket under the price of equipment and services providers and triggered a wave of consolidation.
高企的油价和日渐稀缺的资源，为油田设备和服务供应商的股价安装了火箭发动机，并引发该行业一轮整合大潮。 - Dwindling water supplies and drought comes just as China's wealth is increasing demand for more water.
在水资源供应减少、旱灾出现之际，中国的用水需求正在日益上升。 - Around the world, dwindling water supplies and deteriorating water quality are driving innovations in water treatment technologies.
在全世界范围内，不断减少的水资源和恶化的水质正在驱动着水处理技术的创新。 - Several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are beset by dwindling revenues and rising debts.
撒哈拉沙漠以南的几个非洲国家正遭受财政收入减少和债务增加的困扰。 - It offers an alternative to the dwindling supplies of natural gas.
这一过程为正在减少中的天然气供应提供了另外的来源。 - The number of people who live on the island is rapidly dwindling.
住在这个岛上的人口数目急速减少。 - And the dwindling capital becomes smaller and smaller until it no longer supplies even our basic needs.
随着本金的逐渐减少，最后可能会连我们最基本的生活需要都满足不了了。