declinevt. 1. bend down低下。 △Lr.4.2.22: “Decline yourhead.”i.e.for a kiss. 低下頭來(lái)。 2. lean使…倚靠。 △Ham.3.2.146(135)s.d:“Hetakes her up and declines his head upon her neck.”他扶她起立,垂頭偎其頸。 3. go over in detail,go through from beginning toend. recite in order 仔細(xì)溫習(xí),從頭至尾考慮,按順序背誦。 △R.III.4.4.97: “Decline all this. and see what nowthou art. ”把這一切從頭至尾想一想,再看看你現(xiàn)在成了什么人。 4. inflect(in grammar),give the changes in the ter-mination of a word使(單詞)發(fā)生詞尾變化。 △Wiv.4.1.42 (40): “Articles are borrowed of the pronoun. andbe thus declined.”冠詞是從代詞借來(lái)的,有如下的詞尾變化 ~ vi. 1. descend,fall降下,降落。 △Ham.2.2.508 (478):“Which was declining on the milky head / Of rever-end Priam,”那刀正要落向老邁的普賴姆的白發(fā)蒼蒼的頭頂。decline upon: sink down to. descend upon跌落到,下降到。 △Ham.1.5. 50:“and to decline / Upon a wretchwhose natural gifts were poor╱ To those of mine!”竟然屈尊下嫁給那么一個(gè)壞蛋,他的天賦的才德與我相比不知要低多少倍! 2. sink,fall倒下,垮臺(tái)。 △H.VIII.3.2.375(374): “Canthy spirit wonder / A great man should decline?” 大人物也會(huì)垮臺(tái),你心里覺(jué)得奇怪嗎? 3. sink down,fall下陷,下降。 △Oth.3.3.265:“or forI am declined / Into the vale of years (yet that’s nomuch),”再不然因?yàn)槲蚁萑肓四隁q的低谷(上了年紀(jì)),其實(shí)我并不算老。 4. incline傾心。 △Com.3.2.44: “ to you do I de-cline,”我傾心于你。 decline[di?klain]v.下降,降低,傾斜,衰落,減少,謝絕,拒絕 ◇decline all responsibility for聲明對(duì)…不負(fù)任何責(zé)任 decline with thanks謝絕 fall into a decline失去…/fall into decline衰落 go into a decline下降(退)/on the decline在衰退,傾斜 ‖ decline a penalty放棄罰球權(quán)利 decline bench press下斜式推舉 decline draft拒付 decline in prices物價(jià)下跌 decline in quotations行情下降 decline in the dollar美元貶值 decline of export markets出口市場(chǎng)縮小 decline phase衰退期 decline... points下降…百分點(diǎn) decline press角度推練習(xí) decline to receive a guest擋駕 decline with thanks謝絕 declined gambit拒吃棄兵局 declining markets衰退市場(chǎng) declining years老年,垂暮之年 declinable adj. 可變格的 declinal adj. |