decline是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to gradually become less, worse, or lower -- （逐漸）減少，衰落，降低

  • His interest in the project declined after his wife died. 妻子死後，他對該企劃案的興趣逐漸淡薄了。

  • The party's popularity has declined in the opinion polls. 民意調查顯示該黨的支持率已經下滑。

  • formal The land declines sharply away from the house. 地勢從房屋那邊開始大幅度向下傾斜。

• 1 to refuse -- 拒絕，謝絕

  • I invited him to the meeting but he declined. 我邀請他參加會議，但他謝絕了。

  • He declined my offer. 他拒絕了我的提議。

  • [ + to infinitive ] They declined to tell me how they had obtained my address. 他們拒絕透露是如何得到我的地址的。

• 2 If a noun, pronoun, or adjective declines, it has different forms to show if it is the subject or object, etc. of a verb or if it is singular or plural, etc. If you decline such a word, you list its various forms. -- （根據名詞，代詞或形容詞在句子中的作用）變格；（使）發生詞形變化

  • In Latin we learned how to decline nouns. 學習拉丁語要了解名詞的變格規則。

• 3 when something becomes less in amount, importance, quality, or strength -- 衰落；衰弱，衰退

  • industrial decline 工業的衰落

  • Home cooking seems to be on the/in decline (= not so many people are doing it). 自己在家做飯的人似乎越來越少了。

  • a decline in the number of unemployed 失業人數的下降

  • She seemed to be recovering and then she went into a decline. 她的身體似乎開始恢復了，但後來卻又變得越來越虛弱。