Diminishing

(adj.) becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so; 'diminishing returns'; 'his diminishing respect for her' .

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• The hunters of the third and last stage of the later Pal?olithic Age appear to have supplemented a diminishing food supply by fishing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We could thus take care of a snow-storm by diminishing the bulk of material to be handled. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But instead of diminishing their claims to approbation and reward, it places those claims on a more substantial foundation than that of abstract original ideas. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The diseases they were subject to still continue, without increasing or diminishing. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Further on Wells remarks that this diminishing actuality of our political life is a matter of almost universal comment to-day. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This tribe accordingly went on diminishing, till there remained in their town on the manor but twenty persons, viz. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• This new battery was strong enough to pass a powerful current through the magnet without materially diminishing the strength of the line current. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The only way of diminishing the evil is either to limit a man in his use of his property, or to insist that he shall lend at his own risk. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• In her eyes Tracy Tupman was a youth; she viewed his years through a diminishing glass. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The sabre-toothed tiger was diminishing towards extinction. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Ursula looked with hatred on the buffers of the diminishing wagon. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Their use on many other vehicles has accomplished his objects, of lessening the power required to draw carriages, rendering the motion easier, and diminishing the noise. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Thus he lay through the diminishing days and lengthening nights of the whole drear month of November. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The scarcity of a dear year, by diminishing the demand for labour, tends to lower its price, as the high price of provisions tends to raise it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He also carried his small triangular shield, broad enough at the top to protect the breast, and from thence diminishing to a point. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Then I glanced below me, and there I saw a rapidly diminishing circle of light--the mouth of the opening above the phosphorescent radiance of Omean. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• They were not only more surly; they were diminishing the output, and it became impossible to manage the works. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Then there was a great swerve at the bottom, when they swung as it were in a fall to earth, in the diminishing motion. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The quantity sown per acre is governed by simply increasing or diminishing the speed of the feed wheel. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The merchant or monied man makes money by lending money to government, and instead of diminishing, increases his trading capital. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• London did not contain above a thousand inhabitants; and this number was continually diminishing. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It abated because, among other influences, the social differences between patricians and plebeians were diminishing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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