decline现在分词

1. 下降，减少
2. 使倾斜，使低垂
3. 拒绝，婉辞，谢绝
4. （太阳等）落下
5. 【语】使发生词尾变化，使变格
6. 衰退，衰落
7. 下倾，下垂
8. 接近结束
9. 沦落，堕落

1. 衰退，衰弱
2. 下降
3. 减少
4. 落下
5. 衰退（落）期，结束期，后期
6. 倾斜，斜坡
7. 消耗病（如肺病）

1. change toward something smaller or lower
2. a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
3. a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
4. a downward slope or bend

1. grow worse;

   "Conditions in the slum worsened"
   

2. refuse to accept;

   "He refused my offer of hospitality"
   

3. show unwillingness towards;

   "he declined to join the group on a hike"
   

4. grow smaller;

   "Interest in the project waned"
   

5. go down;

   "The roof declines here"
   

6. go down in value;

   "the stock market corrected"
   "prices slumped"
   

7. inflect for number, gender, case, etc.,

   "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"
   

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1. 拒绝：请不要直接从硬碟删除那些档案,透过管理网站去拒绝(Decline)您所不需要的修正程式. 请不要直接从硬碟删除那些档案,透过管理网站去拒绝(Decline)您所不需要的修正程式.

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2. 衰退：她会从高高的金字塔上跳下去. 在这12项前提的指导下,舒伯认为,可以根据年龄,将每个人生阶段与职业发展配合. 他把职业生涯分成成长(growth)、探索(exploration)、建立(establishment)、维持(maintenance)、衰退(decline)五个阶段:

3. 减少：但除了少数的几个都心(urban center),多数的小城市,甚至仅离都心远一点的地方,因失业率(unemployment)居高不下,居民必须离乡找工作(in search of work),在人口(population)持续减少(decline)的情况下,整个德东

1. There has been a sharp decline in profits this year.
   今年的利润大幅度下降。

1. We asked her to come to our party, but she declined.
   我们请她来参加我们的晚会,但是她谢绝了。
2. The sun is declining.
   太阳在落山。
3. The ground on each side declines gently.
   地面的两侧略向下倾斜。
4. Their position in international trade rapidly declined.
   他们在国际贸易中的地位急速下降。
5. His health has declined these months.
   在过去的几个月里,他的身体衰弱了。

1. I declined his invitation.
   我谢绝了他的邀请。

1. The boy declined to answer a question.
   那男孩拒绝回答问题。

1. He declined going to the party with her.
   他不肯跟她一起去参加晚会。

• It is only in the..year of Rembrandt's death that we detect some decline in the artist's expressive power.

  出自：J. Rosenberg

• The Turf, which had fallen into a decline in recent years had revived wonderfully.

  出自：J. G. Farrell

• Yet doe I not decline from thy testimonies.

  出自：Bible (AV): Psalms

• ☆ 14世纪初期进入英语，直接源自古法语的decliner，意为折弯，转弯；最初源自拉丁语的declinare：de (从） + clinare (弯曲）。