decline
音標(biāo)發(fā)音
- 英式音標(biāo) [d??kla?n]
- 美式音標(biāo) [d??kla?n]
- 國(guó)際音標(biāo) [di'klain]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- n.下降
- vt.& vi.辭謝，謝絕（邀請(qǐng)等）
- vi.（道路、物體等）下傾
- vt.謝絕，婉拒
詞源解說
- 14世紀(jì)初期進(jìn)入英語，直接源自古法語的decliner，意為折彎，轉(zhuǎn)彎；最初源自拉丁語的declinare：de (從） + clinare (彎曲）。
詞根記憶
- de(向下) + cline(傾斜)→向下傾斜→下降
- de(向下) + clin(彎曲) + e→向下彎曲→下降
- de(向下) + clin(彎曲) + e→向下彎曲→下降；衰退
- de(向下) + clin(傾斜) + e→向下傾斜→下降；衰退
- de(向下) + cline(傾斜)→向下傾斜→下降；衰敗
用法辨析
- decline用作動(dòng)詞的基本意思是有禮貌地拒絕邀請(qǐng)、給予或服務(wù)。引申可表示“衰落,降低”“傾斜,下降”“下沉”。作“辭謝,謝絕”解時(shí)多用作及物動(dòng)詞,其后可接名詞、動(dòng)名詞或動(dòng)詞不定式作賓語。作“衰落”解時(shí)只用作不及物動(dòng)詞。
- decline作動(dòng)詞指“有禮貌地謝絕”，比refuse語氣上要婉轉(zhuǎn)些；
- decline后可跟不定式或動(dòng)名詞，但跟不定式比較普遍。She declined to answer my questions.
- decline的名詞形式有declination，declinature和declinal，但都不常見。美語中declination比較常見，但還是習(xí)慣用refuse的名詞形式refusal。
v. (動(dòng)詞)
英漢例句
- There has been a sharp decline in profits this year.
今年的利潤(rùn)大幅度下降。 - We asked her to come to our party, but she declined.
我們請(qǐng)她來參加我們的晚會(huì),但是她謝絕了。 - I declined his invitation.
我謝絕了他的邀請(qǐng)。 - The boy declined to answer a question.
那男孩拒絕回答問題。 - He declined going to the party with her.
他不肯跟她一起去參加晚會(huì)。
用作名詞 (n.)
用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)
用作不及物動(dòng)詞: S+～(+A)
用作及物動(dòng)詞: S+～+ n./pron.
S+～+to- v
S+～+ v -ing
詞組短語
- decline a proposal 〔invitation〕 謝絕建議〔邀請(qǐng)〕
- decline an appointment 〔the challenge〕 不愿接受委任〔挑戰(zhàn)〕
- decline suggestion 謝絕建議
- decline westward 向西下沉
- decline courteously 〔tactfully〕 有禮貌〔巧妙〕地謝絕
- decline drastically 急劇下降
用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)
～+名詞
～+副詞
英英字典
- (GO DOWN) to gradually become less, worse, or lower
- (REFUSE) to refuse
- (GRAMMAR) 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.
- when something becomes less in amount, importance, quality, or strength
- If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
- If you decline something or decline to do something, you politely refuse to accept it or do it.
- If there is a decline in something, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or quality.
- If something is in decline or on the decline, it is gradually decreasing in importance, quality, or power.
- If something goes or falls into decline, it begins to gradually decrease in importance, quality, or power.
劍橋英英字典
柯林斯英英字典
專業(yè)釋義
- 衰退
Therefore, from the occurrence, development stability or decline, obviously firm contains a process of growth.
從發(fā)生、發(fā)展到穩(wěn)定或衰退，顯然企業(yè)是個(gè)成長(zhǎng)的過程。 - 衰落
Chapter Seven is about the decline of the former trade route.
第七章論述糧油故道的衰落。農(nóng)業(yè)科學(xué)
- 衰退
To utilize X. sorbifolia sustainable,decline population management should be strengthened.
建議加強(qiáng)對(duì)衰退種群的管理,實(shí)現(xiàn)文冠果的可持續(xù)利用。歷史學(xué)
- 衰亡
Chapter three looks into the causes of social chaos, decline and fall.
第三章論述引起動(dòng)亂衰亡的原因。 - 衰微
These actions had injected new vigor into traditional culture, which was in the decline.
他的這一系列舉措為衰微的傳統(tǒng)文化注入了新的活力。 - 沒落
In terms of the views on the social status of the English nobility in this period, the traditional view that the English nobility began to decline has long dominated the academic circles.
在關(guān)于16—18世紀(jì)英國(guó)貴族的社會(huì)地位的認(rèn)識(shí)上，傳統(tǒng)看法——貴族在這一時(shí)期走向沒落——長(zhǎng)期占據(jù)統(tǒng)治地位。文學(xué)
- 沒落
With the development of history and culture, the traditional family culture came to decline in modern society. Modern writers decomposed it in all kinds of ways, and the family criticism became a classical subject of Chinese modern literature.
隨著歷史和文化的發(fā)展，傳統(tǒng)家族文化在現(xiàn)代社會(huì)中日益走向沒落，現(xiàn)代作家對(duì)其進(jìn)行了全方位的解構(gòu)，家族批判成為中國(guó)現(xiàn)代文學(xué)中的經(jīng)典主題。能源科學(xué)技術(shù)
- 遞減
If the ratio is lower than9,much more rapid production decline will appear for such an oilfield.
儲(chǔ)采比低于9以后,油田產(chǎn)量將以很快的速度遞減。 - 下降
Wellbore liquid is an important factor which may bring about a production decline of gas well.
井筒積液是導(dǎo)致天然氣井產(chǎn)量下降的一個(gè)重要因素。電子、通信與自動(dòng)控制技術(shù)
- 下降
Without exploiting motion information, normal 3D wavelet transformation can decline its coding efficiency in complex and movable scene.
常規(guī)的三維小波變換因?yàn)闆]有利用運(yùn)動(dòng)信息，對(duì)復(fù)雜的運(yùn)動(dòng)場(chǎng)景的編碼效率會(huì)大幅度下降。藝術(shù)學(xué)
- 衰微
Chinese characters colorful paintings by the Early Tang Dynasty,to the late emergence of highly water-and-ink paintings,Chinese characters drawing shows the beginning of the decline,and then break off a sluggish.
中國(guó)人物繪畫由唐初色彩絢麗,到后期推崇水墨文人畫興起,說明了中國(guó)人物繪畫開始走向衰微,并從此一撅不振。 - 缺失
However, weakened consumedly to taste advantage sublime along with the rise of the public culture that the development of the modern merchandise society bring, the lofty imperfection reflected on the decline of the tragedy art form from the side again.
然而，現(xiàn)代商品社會(huì)的發(fā)展所帶來的大眾文化的興起大大削弱了崇高的審美優(yōu)勢(shì)，崇高的缺失又從一個(gè)側(cè)面反映了悲劇藝術(shù)形式的式微。生物學(xué)
- 衰落
- 衰變
- 減退;衰變;下降