英 [dɪˈklaɪn] 美 [dɪˈklaɪn]
v. 下降，衰退；拒绝，谢绝；变格，词形变化
n. 减少，衰退
复数declines
第三人称单数declines
现在分词declining
过去式declined
过去分词declined
decline /dɪˈklaɪn/ CET4 TEM4 [ declining declined declines ]
不及物动词 If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength. 下降
The number of staff has declined from 217,000 to 114,000.
员工人数已从217000人减少到114000人。
Hourly output by workers declined 1.3% in the first quarter.
工人每小时的产量在第1季度下降了1.3%。
及物动词/不及物动词 If you decline something or decline to do something, you politely refuse to accept it or do it. 谢绝
He declined their invitation.
他谢绝了他们的邀请。
He offered the boys some coffee. They declined politely.
他要给男孩们来些咖啡。他们礼貌地拒绝了。
有变体名词 If there is a decline in something, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or quality. 下降
Official figures show a sharp decline in the number of foreign tourists.
官方数字显示外国游客数量骤降。
习语 If something is in decline or on the decline, it is gradually decreasing in importance, quality, or power. 在下降
Thankfully the smoking of cigarettes is on the decline.
感谢的是吸烟正在减少。
习语 If something goes or falls into decline, it begins to gradually decrease in importance, quality, or power. 开始下降
Libraries are an investment for the future and they should not be allowed to fall into decline.
图书馆是对未来的一种投资，不应该让图书馆衰落。
change toward something smaller or lower
同义词： diminution
a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
同义词： declination
a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
同义词： decay
a downward slope or bend
同义词： descent / declivity / fall / declination / declension / downslope
grow worse
同义词： worsen
go down
The roof declines here
inflect for number, gender, case, etc.,
in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives
衰退-引用次数：219
Therefore, from the occurrence, development stability or decline, obviously firm contains a process of growth.
从发生、发展到稳定或衰退，显然企业是个成长的过程。
参考来源企业的成长：理论与解释
衰落-引用次数：153
Chapter Seven is about the decline of the former trade route.
第七章论述粮油故道的衰落。
参考来源晋蒙粮油故道研究
衰退-引用次数：108
To utilize X. sorbifolia sustainable,decline population management should be strengthened.
建议加强对衰退种群的管理,实现文冠果的可持续利用。
衰亡-引用次数：28
Chapter three looks into the causes of social chaos, decline and fall.
第三章论述引起动乱衰亡的原因。
衰微-引用次数：18
These actions had injected new vigor into traditional culture, which was in the decline.
他的这一系列举措为衰微的传统文化注入了新的活力。
参考来源曾国藩与道咸同年间传统文化的嬗变
没落-引用次数：12
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.
在关于16—18世纪英国贵族的社会地位的认识上，传统看法——贵族在这一时期走向没落——长期占据统治地位。
参考来源16
没落-引用次数：25
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.
随着历史和文化的发展，传统家族文化在现代社会中日益走向没落，现代作家对其进行了全方位的解构，家族批判成为中国现代文学中的经典主题。
参考来源家：坍塌的神话
递减-引用次数：122
If the ratio is lower than9,much more rapid production decline will appear for such an oilfield.
储采比低于9以后,油田产量将以很快的速度递减。
下降-引用次数：101
Wellbore liquid is an important factor which may bring about a production decline of gas well.
井筒积液是导致天然气井产量下降的一个重要因素。
下降-引用次数：106
Without exploiting motion information, normal 3D wavelet transformation can decline its coding efficiency in complex and movable scene.
常规的三维小波变换因为没有利用运动信息，对复杂的运动场景的编码效率会大幅度下降。
参考来源MPEG
衰微-引用次数：6
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.
中国人物绘画由唐初色彩绚丽,到后期推崇水墨文人画兴起,说明了中国人物绘画开始走向衰微,并从此一撅不振。
参考来源印度佛教对中国唐代人物画的影响
缺失-引用次数：4
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，现代商品社会的发展所带来的大众文化的兴起大大削弱了崇高的审美优势，崇高的缺失又从一个侧面反映了悲剧艺术形式的式微。
参考来源柏格森喜剧理论的现代阐释
衰落
衰变
减退;衰变;下降
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declination 倾斜；偏差；衰微
The industry has slid into decline.
这个行业已成衰退之势。
Support for the party continues to decline.
对该党的支持继续下降。
They failed to arrest the company's decline.
他们未能阻止公司的衰落。
Professor Jones had used the words "trick" and "hide the decline" in relation to a graph showing temperature decreases.
VOA : special.2010.04.27
Now Buckle is a forgotten name today, but at one time he was just about as famous as Oswald Spengler who wrote The Decline of the West.
现在巴克尔已经被人们淡忘了，但他曾和写《西方的没落》的,奥斯瓦尔德，斯宾格勒一样著名。
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And in the--from 1989 to 2006 there was a pretty significant decline, but even in 1989 the numbers weren't very high.
我们看到,从1989到,2006年有个很明显的下降,但是即使是在1989年这个数字也不高
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In the e-mail, he used the words "trick" and "hide the decline" when writing about a graph showing rising temperatures.
VOA : special.2010.01.19
"Certainly the good news is that the rate of deaths of children under five years of age continued to decline in two thousand eight.
VOA : special.2009.09.28
The recent decline in gasoline consumption is my first example that there is hope.
Pending sales of existing homes rose 0.4% in July, going against expectations of a decline.
Experts say nearly all of the UK's 250 species of bee are in decline.
发音 英 [dɪ'klaɪn] 美 [dɪ'klaɪn] 释义 vt. 变化(名词代词或形容词)的词尾,使(静词)发生词尾变化;使变格(如拉丁语puella变化为5个单数形式׃ puella,puellae,puellae,puellam,puella)[参较conjugate] 按顺序背诵某个名词代词或形容词的词形变化 拒绝拒不(做进入考虑等) He declined to address the delegates. 他拒绝向代表们发表讲话 She declined to say more ...