diminution

n.减小，减少，缩减

noun

1. 减少；缩减；降低
   the act of reducing sth or of being reduced
   1. the diminution of political power
      政权的削弱
2. 缩小；减少；缩小量；减少量
   a reduction; an amount reduced
   1. a diminution in population growth
      人口增长幅度的缩小

名词复数形式:diminutions

1. The president has accepted a diminution of the powers he originally wanted.
   总统已经接受了对自己原本要求的权力进行削减。
2. They hope for a small diminution in taxes.
   他们希望捐税能稍有减少。
3. Age brought a gradual diminution of his strength and energy.
   年龄使他的体力和精力逐渐减退。
4. The diminution of a pile of crowns made bankers sing the Marseillaise.
   看到白银堆降低了，银行家就唱起《马赛曲》。
5. It is but just to add that he had forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution of about eighty francs.
   还应当指出，十九年中，礼拜日和节日的强迫休息大致要使他少赚二十四个法郎，他还忘了把那个数目加入他的账目。
6. This diminution saddened devoted men who loved their persons, and serious men who honored their race.
   这种琐碎的作风叫忠于王室的人和热爱种族的严肃的人都灰心失望。
7. Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a diminution of misery and an augmentation of health.
   这样一件简单的事，对公众来说，将会减少贫困和增进健康。
8. When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity.
   当利润减少时，商人们往往都埋怨说，商业衰退了，可是利润减少乃是商业繁盛的自然结果。
9. And even technological progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty.
   甚至技术进步也只有在其产品能够在某种方式上用于减少人类自由时才能达到。
10. This loss of control has not been matched by any corresponding diminution of responsibility.
    这种控制权的丧失却没有伴随责任的相应减少。
11. Characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment.
    以减少或减缩为特点，或者导致减少或减缩。
12. There will be no diminution of our military presence or capabilities in the region.
    我们在该地区的军事存在不会减少，军事能力也不会下降。
13. If your company does expand in the way you propose, there will be a diminution in profits for at least the next two years.
    要是你的公司真的按你建议的方式扩大，那么至少在接下去两年内利润将会有减少。
14. Its troubles in the mid-70s were not produced by any diminution or disappearance of this essential economic advantage.
    它在70年代中期的问题并不是由于这种基本的经济优势的弱化或消失。
15. The amount lost by gradual diminution or waste.
    消耗量逐渐损耗或浪费而失去的量。
16. They would point, too, to a diminution in the frequency of global financial crises this decade.
    他们还会指出，这十年中全球金融危机的发生频率在降低。
17. They were experiencing constant diminution of funds.
    他们的资金在不断减少。
18. Children with and without fever in the acetaminophen group showed similar diminution of antibody response.
    在对乙酰氨基酚组发烧和没有发烧的孩子显示类似的抗体反应。
19. The government tried to prevent the diminution of resources.
    政府试图阻止资源的减少。
20. Some people say that you can achieve a general diminution in your stress level by taking regular exercise.
    有些人说定期锻炼可以使你的紧张程度得到全面下降。
21. Devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure.
    缺少掩饰，克制或隐藏的；无遮蔽的和纯粹的。
22. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity.
    在探讨一个人自己的生产效率下降的原因时，很难做到客观。
23. They say there is no safe diminution of habitat as long as human understanding of ecology is as sketchy as it is a fallback strategy is unthinkable.
    他们说，只要人类对生态系统的认识还是一知半解的，那就不存在对栖息地的安全缩小；因此也就谈不上什么保险策略了。
24. The progress of science has seemed to mean the enlargement of the material universe and the diminution of man's importance.
    科学的进步似乎意味着把物质的宇宙扩大，把人的重要性缩小了。
25. In this article the diminution of noise and the importance of reference with fishery data were discussed.
    另外对使用中噪声消减、渔获物调查数据的参考等进行了说明；
26. Any local diminution of blood supply will delay or prevent healing.
    任何局部供血的减少将延迟或阻碍愈合。
27. We have already referred to the qualitatively different states of aggregation water exhibits under increase or diminution of temperature.
    前面已经提到水由于温度的增减而表现出质的不同的聚合状态。
28. The beef industry is only this year recovering from the commodity price spikes of 2007 and 2008 – events that led to a dramatic diminution of the number of cattle raised for slaughter.
    牛肉业直到今年才从2007年和2008年的大宗商品价格飙升中恢复过来。当年的价格飙升曾导致供宰杀的生牛数量大幅减少。
29. Recoverable pecuniary damage is a diminution of the victim's patrimony caused by the damaging event.
    可回复的财产损害指受害人在损害事件中遭受的财物的减少。