decline是下降的意思。
详细释义:
动词:
变小;变少;减少;降低;谢绝;婉言拒绝;下沉;使(名词;代词;形容词)变化词形。
名词:
日渐衰弱;持续减少;不断下降;下跌;贬值;夕阳渐沉;消耗病。
短语搭配:
in decline.下降;在衰落;没落中。
economic decline.经济衰退。
decline by.下降。
mental decline.精神衰退。
decline to do.拒绝做。
one's declining years.暮年,晚年。
decline to.下降至;谢绝;婉拒。
sharp decline.急速下滑;急速下降;飞速下降。
on the decline.下降;衰落;衰退。
rapid decline.急速下滑;急速下降;飞速衰退。
steep decline.锐减;陡降。
gradual decline.逐渐下降。
slow decline.慢慢衰退;缓慢下降。
双语例句:
1、A commission to investigate a link between pollution and forest decline.
一个调查污染和森林面积减少之间联系的委员会。
2、The past few years have seen a sharp decline in morality.
在过去的几年中道德状况急剧下降。
3、It would be unkind and discourteous to decline a visit.
拒绝来访是不友好和不礼貌的。
4、anxieties about the moral decline of today's youth.
对于当今青年道德退化的不安。
5、He had to decline, to his regret.
他不得不遗憾地拒绝。
6、Thereafter their fortunes suffered a steep decline.
之后他们的财富大幅度减少。
7、Anxiety about national decline and incohesion.
对国家衰落及缺乏凝聚力的担忧。
8、The birth rate continued to decline.
生育率继续下降。
9、Since the event the power of the country has been on the wane/decline.
自那个事件以后,这个国家的实力日趋没落。
10、Stock investors sell short when they expect the market to decline.
股民们在预料股价会跌时就卖空。