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1·The world's resources are rapidly diminishing.

世界资源正在迅速减少。《牛津词典》

2·Campaigners are shining a spotlight on the world's diminishing natural resources.

从事这场运动的人要使公众注意到世界上的自然资源日益减少。《牛津词典》

3·The government now supports the elderly, diminishing the need for children.

政府现在支持老年人，减少了对于儿童数量的需求（的关注）。

4·There are those who consider it questionable that these defense-linked research projects will either improve our standard of living or do much to protect our diminishing resources.

有些人怀疑这些与国防有关的研究项目能否提高我们的生活水平，或者对保护我们日益减少的资源能否起到很大的作用。

5·This was debated eagerly at first, but with diminishing coherence as the champagne took hold.

辩论一开始满热烈的，可是上了香槟后，条理性就降低了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

6·Such strict parents should know the law of diminishing returns (收益递减).

这样严格的父母应该知道收益递减规律。

7·The value of a college degree is diminishing, and our upward mobility is declining.

大学学位正在逐渐贬值，我们的向上流动也在放缓。

8·The technologies themselves, and their makers, are the easiest suspects to blame for our diminishing attention spans.

技术本身，以及它们的制造者，最容易被怀疑是造成我们注意力持续下降的罪魁祸首。

9·Wood, the primary source of heat for homes and industries and also used in the iron industry as processed charcoal, was diminishing in supply.

木材是家庭和工业的主要热源，也以加工木炭的形式用于铁工业，它的正在减少。

10·In the state sector, the excessive focus on English, maths and science threatens to crush arts subjects; meanwhile, reduced school budgets mean diminishing extracurricular activities.

在国家层面，对英语、数学和科学的过度关注给艺术学科带来了威胁；与此同时，学校预算的减少意味着课外活动的减少。

减少

1·The world's resources are rapidly diminishing.

世界资源正在迅速减少。《牛津词典》

2·The government now supports the elderly, diminishing the need for children.

政府现在支持老年人，减少了对于儿童数量的需求（的关注）。

3·There are those who consider it questionable that these defense-linked research projects will either improve our standard of living or do much to protect our diminishing resources.

有些人怀疑这些与国防有关的研究项目能否提高我们的生活水平，或者对保护我们日益减少的资源能否起到很大的作用。

4·Wood, the primary source of heat for homes and industries and also used in the iron industry as processed charcoal, was diminishing in supply.

木材是家庭和工业的主要热源，也以加工木炭的形式用于铁工业，它的正在减少。

5·And yet another way of diminishing responsibility is anonymity.

再有一种减少责任的办法就是匿名。

递减

1·But even there, the risk is of diminishing returns.

但是就算那样，还是存在收益递减的风险。

2·Most business managers recognize the point of diminishing returns, but they don't tend to recognize that in hiring.

大多数业务经理都理解收益递减效应的影响，不过在招聘上，他们却认识不到这一点。

3·People are frantically looking for fun fixes, but that means they operate under the law of diminishing returns.

人们疯狂地搜寻找乐方法，但这意味着收益递减规律在他们身上发生作用。

4·In 1738, Daniel, trying to solve a problem in probability theory and the theory of gambling by use of the calculus, stumbled on the concept of the law of diminishing marginal utility of money.

在1738年，丹尼尔试图用微积分来解决一个概率论和赌博理论里的问题，无意间却发现了货币的边际效用递减法则的概念。

5·She calculates 40 hours as almost exactly her point of diminishing returns.

她认为自己的收益递减点差不多刚好是40个小时。

衰减

1·Yet in the west, a diminishing working-age population will support ever more dependents.

然而在西方，一个衰减的，正处于劳动年龄的人口群将支撑着更多的受赡养者。

(1)diminishing marginal utility边际效用递减率

(1)diminishing return收益递减；报酬减少