| 单词 | decline |
| 释义 | de·cline I. intransitive verb 1. < walked in the ways of David his father and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left — 2 Chron 34:2 (Authorized Version) > 2. a. < pipes used for the conveyance of gasoline shall decline to tanks — Fire Manual (Massachusetts) > < the path declines to the track > b. < eyes … declining toward the ground — Henry Fielding > c. < the direful shameful state Adam declined into — Edward Taylor > 3. a. of a celestial body < the sun had begun to decline > b. < as the day declined the place became insupportable — Ellen Glasgow > 4. < the powers of the mind and body begin with added years to decline — C.W.Eliot > 5. obsolete < your weeping sister is no wife of mine … far more, far more to you do I decline — Shakespeare > 6. < when I invited him he declined > transitive verb 1. a. < decline the Latin adjective bonus > b. obsolete < that you no harsh nor shallow rimes decline — Michael Drayton > 2. obsolete a. < evasions are sought to decline the pressure of resistless arguments — Samuel Johnson > b. < sinners … despairing to decline their fate — Thomas Ken > 3. < the clover … declines its blooms — W.C.Bryant > 4. a. < sought out the English fleet but it declined battle — L.W.Dean > b. < declining the unwanted manuscript — August Frugé > 5. Synonyms: < to decline an offer of a chairmanship > < to decline a formal invitation > < to decline to answer personal questions > refuse is more positive, implying decisiveness, even ungraciousness < to refuse an invitation and insult a friend thereby > < to refuse to answer personal questions > < to refuse all offers of marriage > reject implies a refusal to have anything to do with a person or thing < to reject an appeal for help > < rejecting with scorn all that can be called mysticism — W.R.Inge > < rejected by their mothers, shunted from one boarding home to another, these youngsters have lost faith in the kindliness of adults — Alice Lake > repudiate implies a disowning or rejecting with scorn as untrue, unauthorized, unworthy of acceptance, making false claim, and so on < it is not so easy to repudiate one's heritage — A.J.Toynbee > < in permitting the husband to repudiate his wife at his own whim — Reuben Levy > < Bradburn had repudiated his promise — American Guide Series: Texas > spurn implies even stronger disdain or contempt in rejection than repudiate < a devoted beau whom she had spurned for her lover — Joseph Schiffman > < neglected God for years and spurned His commandments — Bruce Marshall > < to spurn an offer of help > II. 1. < the reading of books is suffering a decline — J.D.Adams > a. b. < the decline of the aristocracy > < the decline of the small nations > c. (1) < a late buying movement in these grains eliminated most early declines — Wall Street Journal > : diminution < a decline in population > (2) 2. < in the decline of life > 3. < constructed on a slight decline away from the kennels to allow the water to drain away — Smallholder Encyclopaedia > 4. a. < young men who work themselves into a decline and are driven off in a hearse — R.L.Stevenson > especially b. also decline disease |
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