decline
- IPA[dɪˈklʌɪn]
英式
- (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease；diminish in strength or quality; deteriorate
- a gradual and continuous loss of strength, numbers, quality, or value；the sun's gradual setting
verb: decline, 3rd person present: declines, gerund or present participle: declining, past tense: declined, past participle: declined
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease the birth rate continued to decline 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ diminish in strength or quality; deteriorate her health began to decline 同義詞 反義詞
- 2. politely refuse (an invitation or offer) Caroline declined the coffee the company declined to comment 同義詞 反義詞
- 3. (especially of the sun) move downwards the sun began to creep round to the west and to decline
- ▪ archaic bend down; droop the wearisome creatures of the world declining to their rest
- 4. (in the grammar of Latin, Greek, and certain other languages) state the forms of (a noun, pronoun, or adjective) corresponding to case, number, and gender.
名詞
- 1. a gradual and continuous loss of strength, numbers, quality, or value a serious decline in bird numbers a civilization in decline 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ the sun's gradual setting this Evening from the Sun's decline arriv'd
- ▪ a disease in which the bodily strength gradually fails, especially tuberculosis he died at his brother's of a deep decline
