| 单词 | dwindle |
|---|---|
| 音标 | ['dwindl] |
| 解释 | v.变小 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 v. 变小(diminish; shrink; decrease) 【考】 crawl : proceed / dwindle : decrease(爬是慢慢前进/逐渐 减少慢慢减少)反义词：increase(增 加); proliferate(扩增) 【记】 注意不要和swindle( 欺骗、诈骗)相混 【例】 The sunlight dwindled as the sun set down. |
| 字源 | dwindle (v.) 1590s, apparently diminutive and frequentative of Middle English dwinen "waste away, fade, vanish," from Old English dwinan, from Proto-Germanic *dwinan (cognates: Dutch dwijnen "to vanish," Old Norse dvina, Danish tvine, Low German dwinen), from PIE *dheu- (3) "to die" (see die (v.)). Related: Dwindled; dwindling. |
| 不择手段背单词 | v. 逐渐减少(直到所剩无几) = diminish = shrink = decrease 【记】象wind的一样消逝－逐渐减少 【区】swindle(v /n 诈骗)钱象wind一样的s掉了－被诈骗了 【类】crawl: proceed = dwindle: decrease爬是慢慢前进 = 逐渐减少慢慢减少 【反】increase(v 增加); proliferate(v 激增) |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】音：低 + wind 风力降低→变小；wind 大漠的古城池，都风化成土堆了，随风而逝，逐渐变小 |
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