declines

英 [dɪˈklaɪnz]

美 [dɪˈklaɪnz]

v.  减少; 下降; 衰弱; 衰退; 谢绝; 婉言拒绝; (根据名词、形容词或代词在句中的作用)变格，使发生词形变化
decline的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 下降;减少;衰退;衰落
  If somethingdeclines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
  1. The number of staff has declined from 217,000 to 114,000...
     员工人数从 21.7万减少到了11.4万。
  2. Hourly output by workers declined 1.3% in the first quarter...
     第一季度工人每小时的产量下降了 1.3%。
  3. Union membership and union power are declining fast.
     工会的人数和力量都在迅速萎缩。
  4. ...a declining birth rate.
     呈下降态势的人口出生率
• VERB 婉拒;谢绝
  If youdeclinesomething ordecline todo something, you politely refuse to accept it or do it.
  1. He declined their invitation...
     他谢绝了他们的邀请。
  2. The band declined to comment on the story...
     乐队拒绝对这一报道作任何评论。
  3. He offered the boys some coffee. They declined politely.
     他问那些小伙子要不要来点咖啡，他们婉辞了。
• N-VAR 下降;减少;衰退;衰落
  If there is adecline insomething, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or quality.
  1. There wasn't such a big decline in enrollments after all...
     注册人数终究还是没有出现如此大幅度的下降。
  2. ...Rome's decline in the fifth century...
     公元5世纪时罗马的衰落
  3. The first signs of economic decline became visible.
     经济衰退的最初迹象开始显现出来。
• PHRASE 逐渐势微;正在衰退
  If something isin declineoron the decline, it is gradually decreasing in importance, quality, or power.
  1. Thankfully the smoking of cigarettes is on the decline...
     令人欣慰的是，吸烟量在逐渐下降。
  2. He is still one of the world's most popular golfers, but his game is in decline.
     他仍是世界上最受欢迎的高尔夫球选手之一，但他的球技日不如前。
• PHRASE 走下坡路;开始衰退
  If somethinggoesorfalls into decline, it begins to gradually decrease in importance, quality, or power.
  1. Libraries are an investment for the future and they should not be allowed to fall into decline.
     图书馆是对未来的一项投资，不应任其日趋萎缩。

双语例句

• Over time, as the US dollar declines, China will inevitably suffer huge losses on reserve holdings.
  随着时间的推移，如果美元下跌，中国持有的外汇储备将遭受巨大损失。
• Suppliers hope that a rise in sales volumes will make up for the margin declines.
  供应商希望，销量的上升将弥补利润率下滑的影响。
• But analysts said that PMI usually declines by an average of 0.9 percentage points from September to October.
  但分析师表示，从9月到10月，pmi通常会平均下滑0.9个百分点。
• The estimated rise takes into account expected slight declines in death rates for some cancers in high resource countries.
  所估计的这一增长考虑到了在资源富裕国家某些癌症的死亡率可能会略有下降。
• That compared with declines for all main developed markets, and double-digit declines for India and Russia.
  而所有主要发达国家的股市累计均为下跌，印度和俄罗斯的跌幅甚至达到了两位数。
• That broke seven months of sequential declines and was accompanied by a rebound in transaction volumes.
  这打破了房价连续7个月下跌的局面，并伴随着交易量的回升。
• Second, even as the workforce declines, increased education and infrastructure spending will raise worker productivity.
  其次，即便劳动力减少，教育和基础设施投资的增加也会提高工人的生产力。
• We saw record price declines on a monthly basis for fourteen of our twenty cities that we reported.
  我们看到记录中价格每月，在报告中的二十个城市中的十四个城市下跌。
• The result is that code coverage declines over the life of the product.
  结果就是代码覆盖率降低了产品的生命。
• Poland and Romania saw slight declines in project numbers, of 1 per cent and 2 per cent respectively.
  波兰和罗马尼亚的FDI项目数量出现轻微下跌，分别减少1%和2%。