wanes

英 [weɪnz]

美 [weɪnz]

v.  衰落; 衰败; 败落; 减弱; 缺; 亏
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柯林斯词典

• 他对这些运动项目的兴趣开始减退，倒是对橄榄球开始有了热情。 → see:While his interest in these sports began to wane, a passion for rugby developed.
• PHRASE 减弱;衰落
  If something ison the wane, it is becoming weaker or less.
  1. He was nominally Deputy Prime Minister, certainly, but his influence was clearly on the wane...
     当然，他名义上是副首相，但是显然他的影响力正在下降。
  2. In 1982, with his career prospects on the wane, he sold a script for £5,000.
     1982年，他的事业走下坡路时，以5,000英镑的价钱卖了个剧本。
• VERB (月)缺，亏
  When the moonis waning, it is showing a smaller area of brightness each day as it changes from a full moon to a new moon.
  1. The moon was waning, and each day it rose later.
     月亮渐亏，每天出现的时间也越来越晚。
  2. ...a sky silvered by a waning moon.
     被下弦月染成银色的天空

双语例句

• Your consciousness waxes and wanes throughout the day.
  意识每天都像月亮一样有盈有缺。
• As the Sauron's power grows, her strength wanes.
  魔王的能量增强了，她的力量就减弱了。
• As urgency wanes, leaders 'responsibility to keep standing together is as important as ever.
  在紧迫感消退之际，各国领导人保持团结一致的责任与以往任何时候同样重要。
• Brazil runs the same risk now: the commodity super-cycle could end once Chinese demand wanes.
  巴西现在也面临着同样的风险：一旦中国需求减弱，大宗商品超级周期就可能结束。
• Dring the process, performance will come out not the greatest joys and sorrows. it waxes and wanes. Nothing is perfect, not even in the olden days.
  在寻找的过程中，演出了无尽的悲欢离合。
• Crude prices continued to decline, as optimism surrounding global demand wanes on a daily basis.
  原油价格继续下跌，乐观者认为只是因为全球的日常需求减少。
• Youth wanes year after year; the spring days are fugitive; the frail flowers die for nothing, and the wise man warns me that life is but a dew-drop on the lotus leaf.
  青春一年一年地消逝；春日是暂时的；柔弱的花朵无意义地调谢，聪明人警告我说，生命只是一颗荷叶上的露珠。
• China's property prices fell for a third straight month in July, as demand wanes and lenders propping up the market pull back.
  今年7月，中国房地产价格连续第3个月下跌，因为需求在减弱，而支撑房地产市场的银行也削减了房贷业务。
• The moon waxes till it becomes full, and then wanes.
  月亮渐盈，直到正圆，然后消亏。
• Global investors have sought refuge in US markets as aversion to the eurozone continues and confidence in China wanes, according to the latest Bank of America Merrill Lynch fund manager survey.
  美国银行美林（BankOfAmericaMerrillLynch）进行的最新基金经理调查显示，全球投资者涌向美国市场寻求避险，他们对于欧元区的反感挥之不去，对中国的信心也在减弱。