decline
英 [d?'kla?n]
美[d?'kla?n]
- n. 下降；衰退；斜面
- vi. 下降；衰落；謝絕
- vt. 謝絕；婉拒
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詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?declines;過(guò)去式:?declined;過(guò)去分詞:?declined;現(xiàn)在分詞:?declining;
中文詞源
decline 下降，婉言拒絕
de-, 向下，離開(kāi)。-clin, 彎，轉(zhuǎn)，詞源同lean, incline. 即向下轉(zhuǎn)開(kāi)，引申義婉言拒絕。
英文詞源
- decline
- decline: [14] The notion underlying decline is of ‘bending away’. It comes via Old French decliner from Latin dēclināre ‘turn aside, go down’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē-, ‘a(chǎn)way, aside’ and clināre ‘bend’, which also produced English incline and recline and is related to lean. Its Latin nominal derivative dēclinātiō has bifurcated in English, to produce declination [14] and, via Old French declinaison, declension [15].
The latter is used only in the specialized grammatical sense ‘set of inflectional endings of a noun’, already present in Latin, which derives from the concept that every inflected form of a word represents a ‘falling away’ from its uninflected base form (the same underlying notion appears in the term oblique case ‘a(chǎn)ny grammatical sense other than the nominative or vocative’, and indeed the word case itself, whose etymological meaning is ‘fall’; and there are perhaps traces of it in inflection, literally ‘bending’).
=> declension, incline, lean, recline - decline (v.)
- late 14c., "to turn aside, deviate," from Old French decliner "to sink, decline, degenerate, turn aside," from Latin declinare "to lower, avoid, deviate, to bend from, inflect," from de- "from" (see de-) + clinare "to bend," from PIE *klei-n-, suffixed form of *klei- "to lean" (see lean (v.)). Sense has been altered since c. 1400 by interpretation of de- as "downward." Meaning "not to consent, politely refuse," is from 1630s. Related: Declined; declining.
- decline (n.)
- early 14c., "deterioration, degeneration," from Old French declin (see decline (v.)).
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. After years of neglect and decline the city was cleaning itself up.
- 多年的玩忽職守和經(jīng)濟(jì)蕭條過(guò)后，這個(gè)城市在進(jìn)行自我整頓。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. The electoral fortunes of the Liberal Democratic party may decline.
- 自由民主黨的選舉運(yùn)勢(shì)可能會(huì)下降。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. He criticised the government for failing to halt economic decline.
- 他批評(píng)政府未能遏止經(jīng)濟(jì)下滑。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. The decline in marriage has been offset by a rise in cohabitation.
- 結(jié)婚人數(shù)的減少由于同居人數(shù)的增加而得以彌補(bǔ)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. I think we can date the decline of Western Civilization quite precisely.
- 我認(rèn)為我們可以相當(dāng)準(zhǔn)確地確定西方文明開(kāi)始衰落的年代。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句