参考例子
1.I dwindle, thin as a golden flower.
我缩少,尽管薄的一朵金色的花。
2.The imbalance has caused many ocean species to dwindle to near extinction.
不平衡导致了许多海洋种族减少到近乎灭绝。
3.AS PUBLIC protest in Tehran seems to dwindle, at any rate on the streets, many Arab leaders are quietly exhaling a sigh of relief.
随着在德黑兰的公众抗议活动,至少是街头抗议活动的逐步减少,许多阿拉伯国家领导人暗地里都松了一口气。
4.But God rebukes them, and they flee far away, swept away like chaff on the hills before the wind, whirled away like eddying dust before the thunderstorm.
然而上主一叱责,他必飘逸远逃,有如为飓风捲去山上的禾稭,有如旋风前的蓟絮。
5.He turned away then, and went out from the forest and across the open to where, a couple of miles away, rose a stout wooden dwelling with its stables and byres and ricks about it.
之后,他转身走出森林,跨越空地,经过几哩路,到达一栋砌起坚固木块的房舍,四周有马厩牛房和稻草堆。
网络释义
dwindle away
减少, 缩小; 逐渐减小; 逐渐变小;
dwindle away into nothing
减少到零; 化为乌有;
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衰落;
dwindle
缩小; 减少; 缩小,减弱,消瘦; (逐渐)减少;
dwindle into
堕落成; 衰落成; 减少成;