decline

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 dĭ-klīnʹ

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Downward movement, fall. countable,uncountable
    — The aircraft went into a sudden decline before the pilot regained control.
  2. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road. countable,uncountable
    — After taking a right from that turn a decline will come into view.
  3. A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening. countable,uncountable
    — He has experienced a sudden decline in his health.
  4. A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity. countable,uncountable
    — Population decline is a major concern.
  5. The act of declining or refusing something. countable,uncountable
    — The issuing bank only checks the consumer's credit card number for authorization. […] Soft declines are those declines in which the bank requires further verification.
动词 v.
  1. To move downwards, to fall, to drop. intransitive
    — The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001.
  2. To become weaker or worse. intransitive
    — My health declined in winter.
  3. To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall. transitive
    — in melancholy site, with head declined
  4. To cause to decrease or diminish. transitive
    — You have declin'd his means.
  5. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
    — a line that declines from straightness
  6. To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain. transitive
    — Could I decline this dreadful hour?
  7. To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like. transitive,usually
  8. To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension. transitive
    — after the first declining of a noun and a verb
  9. To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun. broadly
    — Decline all this, and see what now thou art. For happy wife, a most distressed widow; For joyful mother, one that wails the name; For one being sued to, one that humbly sues; For queen , a very caitiff crown'd with care[…]
  10. To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play. Canadian
    — The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain.

词形变化

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词汇关系

反义词
incline
衍生词
acute oak decline declinal declinarian decline porn declinism declinist declinometer oak decline olive quick decline syndrome declension declinability declinable declination decliningly redecline Texas phoenix palm decline undeclined undeclining
相关词
climate cline declivity incline recline

词源

词源 1
From Middle English declinen, and ultimately Latin declīnō (“to bend, turn aside, deflect, inflect, decline”, from dē- (“down”) + clīnō (“to bend, to incline”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (English lean). The senses arrived from two separate pathways in Middle English:
* The grammatical sense came from Old English declīnian, which was borrowed directly from the Latin etymon.
* All senses except the grammatical sense were derived from those of Old French decliner. Old French itself borrowed the verb from Latin.
词源 2
From Middle English declinen, and ultimately Latin declīnō (“to bend, turn aside, deflect, inflect, decline”, from dē- (“down”) + clīnō (“to bend, to incline”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (English lean). The senses arrived from two separate pathways in Middle English:
* The grammatical sense came from Old English declīnian, which was borrowed directly from the Latin etymon.
* All senses except the grammatical sense were derived from those of Old French decliner. Old French itself borrowed the verb from Latin.
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