decline
/dɪˈklaɪn/ 动词 B2中文： 恶化、拒绝、回绝、屏绝
- To move downwards, to fall, to drop. · The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001.
- To become weaker or worse. · My health declined in winter.
- To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- To cause to decrease or diminish.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw. · a line that declines from straightness· conduct that declines from sound morals
- To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain. · On reflection I think I will decline your generous offer.
- To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension.
复数 decline · He/she/it declines · 过去式 declined · 过去分词 declined · -ing形式 declining
动词形式
- 原形
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- He/she/it
- declines
- 过去式
- declined
- 过去分词
- declined
- -ing形式
- declining
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The president himself advanced to place a seat for the young lady; but she declined availing herself of it.
She probably imagined that she was thinking about the Aids and their missionary box and the new carpet for the vestry room, but under these reflections was a harmonious consciousness of red fields smoking into pale-purply mists in the declining sun, of long, sharp-pointed fir shadows falling over the meadow beyond the brook, of still, crimson-budded maples around a mirrorlike wood pool, of a wakening in the world and a stir of hidden pulses under the gray sod.
Long and her nieces must stand their chance; and, therefore, as she will think it an act of kindness, if you decline the office, I will take it on myself.”
Hurst and once with Miss Bingley, declined being introduced to any other lady, and spent the rest of the evening in walking about the room, speaking occasionally to one of his own party.
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