declines

英 [dɪˈklaɪnz] 美 [dɪˈklaɪnz]

v.  减少; 下降; 衰弱; 衰退; 谢绝; 婉言拒绝; (根据名词、形容词或代词在句中的作用)变格，使发生词形变化
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柯林斯词典

  1. VERB 下降;减少;衰退;衰落
    If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
    1. The number of staff has declined from 217,000 to 114,000...
      员工人数从 21.7万减少到了11.4万。
    2. Hourly output by workers declined 1.3% in the first quarter...
      第一季度工人每小时的产量下降了 1.3%。
    3. Union membership and union power are declining fast.
      工会的人数和力量都在迅速萎缩。
    4. ...a declining birth rate.
      呈下降态势的人口出生率
  2. VERB 婉拒;谢绝
    If you decline something or decline to do something, you politely refuse to accept it or do it.
    1. He declined their invitation...
      他谢绝了他们的邀请。
    2. The band declined to comment on the story...
      乐队拒绝对这一报道作任何评论。
    3. He offered the boys some coffee. They declined politely.
      他问那些小伙子要不要来点咖啡，他们婉辞了。
  3. N-VAR 下降;减少;衰退;衰落
    If there is a decline in something, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or quality.
    1. There wasn't such a big decline in enrollments after all...
      注册人数终究还是没有出现如此大幅度的下降。
    2. ...Rome's decline in the fifth century...
      公元5世纪时罗马的衰落
    3. The first signs of economic decline became visible.
      经济衰退的最初迹象开始显现出来。
  4. PHRASE 逐渐势微;正在衰退
    If something is in decline or on the decline, it is gradually decreasing in importance, quality, or power.
    1. Thankfully the smoking of cigarettes is on the decline...
      令人欣慰的是，吸烟量在逐渐下降。
    2. He is still one of the world's most popular golfers, but his game is in decline.
      他仍是世界上最受欢迎的高尔夫球选手之一，但他的球技日不如前。
  5. PHRASE 走下坡路;开始衰退
    If something goes or falls into decline, it begins to gradually decrease in importance, quality, or power.
    1. 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项投资，不应任其日趋萎缩。
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双语例句

  1. Futures prices recovered from sharp early declines to end with moderate losses.
    期货价格在早盘深幅下跌后出现反弹，收盘时未见严重损失。
  2. Hearing sensitivity declines with age.
    听觉因年老而衰退。
  3. Since 1938, eight of the 16 best years for stocks have coincided with declines in corporate earnings.
    1938年以来，股市最好的16年中有8年赶上了企业利润下降。
  4. IDC and Gartner show continued declines in second-quarter shipments ( 11.4% and 10.9%, respectively).
    IDC和高德纳的调查均显示，第二季度全球PC出货量持续下降（分别为11.4%和10.9%）。
  5. The result is that code coverage declines over the life of the product.
    结果就是代码覆盖率降低了产品的生命。
  6. My husband's at work and has attractive girls flirting with him but he declines their advances.
    我的丈夫在工作的时候有迷人的女孩与他调情，但是他却否认他们的进展；
  7. Poland and Romania saw slight declines in project numbers, of 1 per cent and 2 per cent respectively.
    波兰和罗马尼亚的FDI项目数量出现轻微下跌，分别减少1%和2%。
  8. Newspapers have been battered by steep declines in advertising and circulation revenue as readers migrated online.
    随着读者向网络的转移，报业因广告和发行收入的急剧下滑而受到重创。
  9. In the first half of 2012, Nike and Adidas had rising sales, whereas Li-Ning experienced declines.
    2012年上半年，耐克和阿迪达斯销售增长，而李宁公司销售下滑。
  10. Unless Japan's productivity rises faster than its workforce declines, which seems unlikely, its economy will shrink.
    除非日本的生产力增长速度超过劳动力减少的速度，经济发展才能幸免于难，而这似乎不太可能。
  11. Latin America, Canada and Japan saw declines in volumes, driven by health concerns and public smoking restrictions.
    由于对健康关注度的增加和公共场所吸烟的限制，在拉丁美洲、加拿大和日本，公司的卷烟销量下降。
  12. But analysts said that PMI usually declines by an average of 0.9 percentage points from September to October.
    但分析师表示，从9月到10月，pmi通常会平均下滑0.9个百分点。
  13. That broke seven months of sequential declines and was accompanied by a rebound in transaction volumes.
    这打破了房价连续7个月下跌的局面，并伴随着交易量的回升。
  14. Suppliers hope that a rise in sales volumes will make up for the margin declines.
    供应商希望，销量的上升将弥补利润率下滑的影响。
  15. Declines were seen across all cities and regions, with the northern region particularly affected, the report showed.
    下降涉及到所有的城市和地区，特别对北方地区影响比较大。
  16. He declines to see them, and intimates the formation of a new family of faith.
    他拒绝见他们，和亲密组成一个新家庭的信念。
  17. The value of the pension declines in relation to the things that it buys.
    与用它能买得到的东西相比，养老金的价值下降了。
  18. That compared with declines for all main developed markets, and double-digit declines for India and Russia.
    而所有主要发达国家的股市累计均为下跌，印度和俄罗斯的跌幅甚至达到了两位数。
  19. De la Torre said the region has witnessed large declines in stock price indices and significant currency adjustments.
    DelaTorre说，该地区的股票价格指数已经大幅度下跌，货币也经历了重大调整。
  20. For maternal mortality, declines have been limited to countries which already have lower mortality levels.
    在孕产妇死亡率方面，死亡率下降局限于死亡率水平已经较低的国家。
  21. It is just shown signs of recovery, was not much room for price declines.
    这只是显示出复苏的迹象，已经没有多少余地价格下降。
  22. In this study we examine productivity declines in our own field.
    在本研究中我们探讨的生产率下降，在自己的领域。
  23. Some of its magazines have suffered steep declines in circulation and advertising revenues.
    该集团旗下部分杂志的发行量和广告收入显著萎缩。
  24. Their remarks could trigger knee-jerk declines in the euro and the yen.
    他们的评论将会引发欧元和日元的膝跳反应。
  25. Declines had been anticipated, with JPMorgan reporting a similar investment banking performance last week.
    业绩下降早在意料之中，摩根大通（jpmorgan）上周也发布了类似的投资银行业绩。
  26. The estimated rise takes into account expected slight declines in death rates for some cancers in high resource countries.
    所估计的这一增长考虑到了在资源富裕国家某些癌症的死亡率可能会略有下降。
  27. Second, even as the workforce declines, increased education and infrastructure spending will raise worker productivity.
    其次，即便劳动力减少，教育和基础设施投资的增加也会提高工人的生产力。
  28. Over time, as the US dollar declines, China will inevitably suffer huge losses on reserve holdings.
    随着时间的推移，如果美元下跌，中国持有的外汇储备将遭受巨大损失。
  29. We saw record price declines on a monthly basis for fourteen of our twenty cities that we reported.
    我们看到记录中价格每月，在报告中的二十个城市中的十四个城市下跌。
  30. It has historically taken OPEC many attempts to stem price declines.
    历史上，欧佩克都是进行了很多次的尝试才遏制住了价格的下滑。
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