decline是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to gradually become less, worse, or lower -- （逐渐）减少，衰落，降低

  • His interest in the project declined after his wife died. 妻子死后，他对该项目的兴趣逐渐淡薄了。

  • The party's popularity has declined in the opinion polls. 民意测验表明该党的支持率已经下滑。

  • formal The land declines sharply away from the house. 地势从房屋那边开始大幅度向下倾斜。

• 1 to refuse -- 拒绝，谢绝

  • I invited him to the meeting but he declined. 我邀请他参加会议，但他谢绝了。

  • He declined my offer. 他拒绝了我的提议。

  • [ + to infinitive ] They declined to tell me how they had obtained my address. 他们拒绝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. -- （根据名词，代词或形容词在句子中的作用）变格；（使）发生词形变化

  • In Latin we learned how to decline nouns. 学习拉丁语要了解名词的变格。

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

  • industrial decline 工业的衰落

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

  • a decline in the number of unemployed 失业人数的下降

  • She seemed to be recovering and then she went into a decline. 她的身体似乎开始恢复了，但后来却又变得越来越虚弱。