Dwindle

(verb.) become smaller or lose substance; 'Her savings dwindled down'.

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• Then, as the creature's legs appear and its tail is absorbed, it begins to use its lungs, and its gills dwindle and vanish. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Then it was that I began, if I may so Shakespearianly express myself, to dwindle, peak, and pine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I have said that the West is still moved by the tapering impulse of the pioneer, and I have ventured to predict that this would soon dwindle into an agricultural toryism. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He felt that the end of time was come; he knew that one by one we should dwindle into nothingness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Towards the end of October it dwindled away, and was in some degree replaced by a typhus, of hardly less virulence. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• If he were ever a big old man, he has shrunk into a little old man; if he were always a little old man, he has dwindled into a less old man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It was not so with me; and the question of rank and right dwindled to insignificance in my eyes, when I pictured the scene of suffering Athens. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Their retainers became consequently less numerous, and, by degrees, dwindled away altogether. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In its light everything else dwindled and fell away from her. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• As the waters of the planet dried and the seas receded, all other resources dwindled until life upon the planet became a constant battle for survival. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• As the six evenings had dwindled away, to five, to four, to three, to two, I had become more and more appreciative of the society of Joe and Biddy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• They became a weapon against the dwindling power of the Mongolian nomads, first in Turkestan and then across Siberia as far as the Amur. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Their relations with the dwindling empire of Constantinople remained for some centuries tolerantly hostile. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• With the downfall of the Mongolian (Yuan) dynasty (1368), the dwindling opportunity of the Christian missions passed altogether. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Most of the other fires within the wide horizon were also dwindling weak. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It is possible to trace the dwindling succession of many of the small Kans who became independent during this period, almost down to the present time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• His small capital was dwindling. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Europe is bankrupt, and people's pockets rustle with paper money whose purchasing power dwindles as they walk about with it. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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