dwindle是什么意思

双语用例

• However, the population dwindled and, in 1952, the quota was reduced.

• Analysis of the data shows their proportions dwindling steadily.

• But institutional pressures ensured that on widowhood such opportunities dwindled, and there was every incentive to remarry.

• The fund contributors has dwindled to 200 from 575 a decade ago.

• It is also a social crisis, as the spectacle of dwindling and impoverished health, educational, welfare and other social services attest.

• Immigration at other ports dwindled, and, for expediency, immigrant medical inspection was increasingly conducted as part of the quarantine exam.

• Pathetically invoking some common good, the liberal parties dwindled through the 1920s.

• Groups that continued to reside near the lake shore turned to more marginal local resources as the wet gallery forest dwindled.