英语释义

1. to grow progressively less (as in size, amount, number, or intensity)
Yearly sales decreased by five percent. His little remaining strength had been decreasing rapidly for two or three days preceding …
— Charles Dickens

2. to cause to decrease
decrease the risk of heart disease trying to decrease our use of fossil fuels

3. the process of growing progressively less (as in size, amount, number, or intensity) the process of decreasing
a decrease in productivity

4. an amount of diminution reduction
a decrease of 20,000 saw a 20% decrease in violent crime

5. to become smaller in size, amount, number, etc.

6. to make (something) smaller in size, amount, number, etc.

7. the act of becoming smaller or of making something smaller in size, amount, number, etc.

8. the amount by which something is made smaller

9. to grow less or cause to grow less The numbers of students decreased.

10. the process of growing less
a gradual decrease in interest

11. the amount by which something grows less The school saw a five percent decrease in students.

英汉例句

• It seems decreasingly likely that inmates will get the chance to vote in Britain's general election next year, which must take place by June 3rd.

  现在看来囚犯不太可能在明年英国大选中「表达意见」，此次大选必须在6月3号前举行。

• Successive transmissions of the same message are decreasingly accurate.

  连续地传递同样的讯息，其精确性会逐渐降低。

• Results prove that the degree of decoloring varies decreasingly with the dye structure in the(following) sequence: azo dyes, anthraquinone dyes, metal complex dyes, and cationic dyes.

  结果表明，脱色的难易程度从染料结构看，依次为偶氮型、蒽醌型>金属络合型>半菁阳型。

• Natural death becomes decreasingly frequent on these spheres long settled in light and life.

  自然死亡的发生渐渐减少地而长久地停留在光与生命中。

• When it comes to the competence, the sequence decreasingly was the relationship between client, the government, supplier, competitor according to the degree of influence;

  就竞争力而言，影响程度从大到小依次是企业与客户的关系、企业与政府的关系、企业与供应商的关系、企业与竞争对手的关系；

• When it comes to the sympathy, the sequence decreasingly was the relationship between the government, competitor, client, supplier according to the degree of influence.

  就感召力而言，影响程度从大到小依次是企业与政府的关系、企业与竞争对手的关系、企业与客户的关系、企业与供应商的关系。

• In a society as decreasingly religious as England, it is impossible to believe that most of the people who do not accept evolution are motivated by ideology rather than ignorance.

  在英国这样宗教日益没落的社会，很难相信大多数不接受进化论的人是由于思想意识驱使而非无知。

• With a more progressive business model, we suspect consumers decreasingly view Merrill Lynch as a relic from the Cro-Magnon era of financial services.

  由于采取了更进取的商业模式，我们猜测消费者会逐渐不再将美林视作金融业克罗马农时代(译者注：远古时代)的遗物。

• In the course of the spread, the luxury becomes decreasingly luxurious until in the end it becomes a necessity.

  在传播过程中，奢侈品成为少地，直到最后就变成了豪华的必要性。

相似词

abate减轻；失效

de-escalate逐步降级

dent凹痕；削弱；减少

deplete耗尽，用尽；使衰竭，使空虚

diminish减少，缩小；变小

downscalead 面向低收入消费者地

downsize以较小尺寸设计；缩小尺寸；裁减人数

drop滴；落下；空投；微量；滴剂

dwindle使缩小，使减少

ease减轻，缓解；小心缓缓地移动；使容易；放松；（使）贬值；（股票价格、利率等）下降，下跌

knock down击倒；拆卸

lessen减少；减轻；变小

lower(Lower) （美、英）洛厄（人名）

reduce减少；缩小；归纳为

相反词

aggrandize增加；夸大；强化

amplify详述

augment增加；增大

boost促进；增加；支援

enlarge扩大；使增大；扩展

escalate逐步增强；逐步升高；使……加剧，加剧；使逐步上升；升级，（使）恶化；（使）升高，（使）增加；迅速增加，迅速增长；（使）增强，（使）变得严重

expand发展；张开，展开

increase增加；增大；提高；增强

raise(Raise) （意、法、英、美）雷兹（人名）