dwindling

1. VERB (数量上)减少,缩小
   If something dwindles, it becomes smaller, weaker, or less in number.
   1. The factory's workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred...
      工厂雇员总数已经从 4,000 多人减少到几百人。
   2. Exports are dwindling and the trade deficit is swelling...
      出口在缩减，贸易赤字在增长。
   3. He is struggling to come to terms with his dwindling authority.
      他正努力适应自己权力被削弱这一局面。

1. Exports are dwindling and the trade deficit is swelling
   出口在缩减，贸易赤字在增长。
2. He is struggling to come to terms with his dwindling authority.
   他正努力适应自己权力被削弱这一局面。
3. The number of wild animals on the earth is dwindling.
   地球上野生动物的数量正日渐减少。
4. Are fish stocks dwindling?
   鱼类在减少吗？
5. This has led some successful authors to worry about dwindling profits.
   这让一些成功的作家担心收入会减少。
6. Polar bears are in danger, numbers dwindling in the Arctic because of melting ice.
   北极熊现在很危险，因为北极冰雪融化使得它的数量在减少。
7. With dwindling revenue and diminished resources, frustrated newspaper executives are looking for someone to blame.
   面对不断缩水的收入和资源，屡屡受挫的报业管理人士正在找替罪羊。
8. Yet the supply of other safe assets has been dwindling.
   不过，其他安全资产的供应一直在减少。
9. Corporate donations from the city are dwindling, and falling property prices mean the value of legacies is diminishing.
   该城市公司的捐赠减少，下降的财产价格意味这遗产的价值缩水。
10. Red Talons guard the dwindling wolf packs across the world.
    红色魔爪越过世界保护那些日益缩小的狼组织。
11. As the international financial crisis is still unfolding, resources for international development cooperation are dwindling.
    国际金融危机仍在持续，国际发展合作资源也因此在减少。
12. Hunting aside, the number of frogs already were dwindling in Montserrat because of the active volcano.
    将捕猎放在一旁不谈，由于活火山，在蒙特塞拉特这种青蛙的数目已经不断减少。
13. With oil production in decline, the funds with which government could create a system in which power stations and refineries function, businesses thrive and services are delivered, are in dwindling supply.
    由于石油产量下降，政府能够用来创建一个合理体系的资金供应日渐减少。在该体系下，电站和炼厂将得以运行，企业能够蓬勃发展，服务也能得以交付。
14. Dwindling water supplies and drought comes just as China's wealth is increasing demand for more water.
    在水资源供应减少、旱灾出现之际，中国的用水需求正在日益上升。
15. Several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are beset by dwindling revenues and rising debts.
    撒哈拉沙漠以南的几个非洲国家正遭受财政收入减少和债务增加的困扰。
16. Japan has a growing stockpile of unsold whale meat, which is dwindling in popularity among younger consumers.
    日本的待售鲸肉越积越多，因为鲸肉在年轻消费者群体中的受欢迎程度正不断下降。
17. In science and technology lies the answer to the problems of dwindling resources.
    在科学和技术中蕴藏着解决日益减少的资源问题的答案。
18. They discussed the effect of dwindling wetlands on ducks and geese.
    他们讨论过沼泽地带缩小封鸭和鹅的影响。
19. Shark was often prayed to if there were dwindling supplies of fish to feed the populace.
    如果海洋中的鱼类供应减少而无法养活人口的话，人们就经常会去祈祷鲨鱼。
20. Around the world, dwindling water supplies and deteriorating water quality are driving innovations in water treatment technologies.
    在全世界范围内，不断减少的水资源和恶化的水质正在驱动着水处理技术的创新。
21. The European Union sets annual quotas in an effort to protect and revive dwindling fish stocks.
    欧盟规定每年捕鱼的限额，以期保护并恢复日渐减少的鱼群数量。
22. It offers an alternative to the dwindling supplies of natural gas.
    这一过程为正在减少中的天然气供应提供了另外的来源。
23. They are also adapting to an environment of more regulation, less risk, and dwindling profits.
    他们也要适应一个更多的规则、减少风险并且所见利润的环境。
24. The dwindling number of supplier nations could encourage the formation of an OPEC of gas.
    天然气供应国数量的不断减少，可能会鼓励“天然气欧佩克”的问世。
25. The chancellor of the Exchequer groaned about our dwindling dollar resources.
    财政大臣为我们日益减少的美元储备而叫苦。
26. Japanese newspapers have a large readership but are facing dwindling advertising revenues and falling circulation.
    日本的报纸拥有庞大的读者基础，但它们的广告收入日渐下滑，发行量也不断减少。
27. And the dwindling capital becomes smaller and smaller until it no longer supplies even our basic needs.
    随着本金的逐渐减少，最后可能会连我们最基本的生活需要都满足不了了。
28. My own response to a longer life and dwindling wealth is simple.
    我自己对寿命变长和财富减少的回应很简单。
29. High oil prices and dwindling resources have put a rocket under the price of equipment and services providers and triggered a wave of consolidation.
    高企的油价和日渐稀缺的资源，为油田设备和服务供应商的股价安装了火箭发动机，并引发该行业一轮整合大潮。
30. The number of people who live on the island is rapidly dwindling.
    住在这个岛上的人口数目急速减少。

noun

1. a becoming gradually less
   1. there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family

   Synonym:    dwindling away

adj

1. gradually decreasing until little remains

   Synonym:    taperingtapering off