Diminish

(verb.) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; 'don't belittle your colleagues'.

杰罗姆录入

• Yet this consideration does not, or rather did not in after time, diminish the reproaches of my conscience. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I watched to see whether it would spread: but no; as it did not diminish, so it did not enlarge. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• As it has no tendency to diminish the quantity, it can have none to raise the price of that produce. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But this does not reflect upon or diminish the ingenuity required for its invention. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A seignorage will, in many cases, take away altogether, and will in all cases diminish, the profit of melting down the new coin. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The high price of such commodities does not necessarily diminish the ability of the inferior ranks of people to bring up families. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The value of the most barren land is not diminished by the neighbourhood of the most fertile. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The freedom of choice which this allows him, is therefore much greater, and the difficulty of his task much more diminished, than at first appears. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Our first plan had been to quit our wintry native latitude, and seek for our diminished numbers the luxuries and delights of a southern climate. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Not only the profits of stock, but the rent of land, and the wages of labour, would necessarily be more or less diminished by its removal. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In our poultry, a large tuft of feathers on the head is generally accompanied by a diminished comb, and a large beard by diminished wattles. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The profits of stock would be diminished, both really and in appearance. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Thus, we talked of them, and moralized, as with diminished numbers we returned to Windsor Castle. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The hunters of the third and last stage of the later Pal?olithic Age appear to have supplemented a diminishing food supply by fishing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We could thus take care of a snow-storm by diminishing the bulk of material to be handled. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But instead of diminishing their claims to approbation and reward, it places those claims on a more substantial foundation than that of abstract original ideas. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The diseases they were subject to still continue, without increasing or diminishing. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Further on Wells remarks that this diminishing actuality of our political life is a matter of almost universal comment to-day. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This tribe accordingly went on diminishing, till there remained in their town on the manor but twenty persons, viz. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• This new battery was strong enough to pass a powerful current through the magnet without materially diminishing the strength of the line current. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• We learned in Section 287 that the strength of a current increases when the electromotive force increases, and diminishes when the electromotive force diminishes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Now Dalton's master had taught that the atoms of matter in a gas (elastic fluid) repel one another by a force increasing in proport ion as their distance diminishes. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The light diminishes in brightness much more rapidly than we realize, as the following simple experiment will show. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• But the intensity of the vibrations diminishes very rapidly with the distance; so that even with the aid of speaking-tubes and trumpets it is impossible to exceed somewhat narrow limits. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Mr. Bucket brings a chair and diminishes his shadow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The same quantity of money, besides, can not long remain in any country in which the value of the annual produce diminishes. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In proportion as the resemblance decays, the probability diminishes; but still has some force as long as there remain any traces of the resemblance. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

校对:普拉特