英汉词典

decline 基本解释

• n. 下降；衰退；斜面
• vi. 下降；衰落；谢绝
• vt. 谢绝；婉拒

decline 词态变化

decline 中文词源

de-, 向下，离开。-clin, 弯，转，词源同lean, incline. 即向下转开，引申义婉言拒绝。

decline 英文词源

decline

decline: [14] The notion underlying decline is of ‘bending away’. It comes via Old French decliner from Latin dēclināre ‘turn aside, go down’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē-, ‘away, aside’ and clināre ‘bend’, which also produced English incline and recline and is related to lean. Its Latin nominal derivative dēclinātiō has bifurcated in English, to produce declination [14] and, via Old French declinaison, declension [15].

The latter is used only in the specialized grammatical sense ‘set of inflectional endings of a noun’, already present in Latin, which derives from the concept that every inflected form of a word represents a ‘falling away’ from its uninflected base form (the same underlying notion appears in the term oblique case ‘any grammatical sense other than the nominative or vocative’, and indeed the word case itself, whose etymological meaning is ‘fall’; and there are perhaps traces of it in inflection, literally ‘bending’).
=> declension, incline, lean, recline

decline (v.)

late 14c., "to turn aside, deviate," from Old French decliner "to sink, decline, degenerate, turn aside," from Latin declinare "to lower, avoid, deviate, to bend from, inflect," from de- "from" (see de-) + clinare "to bend," from PIE *klei-n-, suffixed form of *klei- "to lean" (see lean (v.)). Sense has been altered since c. 1400 by interpretation of de- as "downward." Meaning "not to consent, politely refuse," is from 1630s. Related: Declined; declining.

decline (n.)

early 14c., "deterioration, degeneration," from Old French declin (see decline (v.)).

decline 英文释义

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

decline 同义词解析

refuse, decline, reject, repel, deny

这些动词均含"拒绝"之意。

refuse： 语气较重，指态度坚决，肯定无疑的拒绝。

decline： 指婉言谢绝他人的帮助或邀请等。

reject： 多指由于某物某事某行为不能让人满意而被当面直截了当地拒绝。

repel： 作"拒绝"解时，语气比reject强。

deny： 指坚决地拒绝接受、给予或承认。

decline 双语例句

1. After years of neglect and decline the city was cleaning itself up.

多年的玩忽职守和经济萧条过后，这个城市在进行自我整顿。

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2. The electoral fortunes of the Liberal Democratic party may decline.

自由民主党的选举运势可能会下降。

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3. He criticised the government for failing to halt economic decline.

他批评政府未能遏止经济下滑。

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4. The decline in marriage has been offset by a rise in cohabitation.

结婚人数的减少由于同居人数的增加而得以弥补。

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5. I think we can date the decline of Western Civilization quite precisely.

我认为我们可以相当准确地确定西方文明开始衰落的年代。

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decline 实用场景例句

a rapid/sharp/gradual decline

迅速 / 急剧 / 逐渐下降

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urban/economic decline

城市衰落；经济衰退

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The company reported a small decline in its profits.

公司报告其利润略有减少。

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An increase in cars has resulted in the decline of public transport.

汽车的增加导致了公共交通的减少。

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The town fell into (a) decline (= started to be less busy, important, etc.) after the mine closed.

这个镇在矿井关闭后开始衰落。

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Industry in Britain has been in decline since the 1970s.

英国工业自20世纪70年代以来一直在走下坡路。

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Support for the party continues to decline.

对该党的支持继续下降。

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The number of tourists to the resort declined by 10% last year.

去年到这个胜地旅游的人数减少了10%。

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Her health was declining rapidly.

她的健康状况迅速恶化。

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I offered to give them a lift but they declined.

我主动邀请他们搭车，但他们婉言谢绝了。

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to decline an offer/invitation

谢绝对方的主动帮助 / 邀请

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Their spokesman declined to comment on the allegations.

他们的发言人拒绝对这些指控加以评论。

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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。

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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%。

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He declined their invitation...

他谢绝了他们的邀请。

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The band declined to comment on the story...

乐队拒绝对这一报道作任何评论。

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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。

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...Rome's decline in the fifth century...

公元5世纪时罗马的衰落

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Thankfully the smoking of cigarettes is on the decline...

令人欣慰的是，吸烟量在逐渐下降。

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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。

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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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The decline of sales embarrassed the company.

销路下降使公司陷于财政困难.

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His father is on the decline.

他父亲的身体越来越弱.

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