dwindle
音标：
美音：/ˈdwɪnd(ə)l/，英音：/ˈdwɪnd(ə)l/
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
That brought blowback from some Catholics, who feared parishes that grew when offering the older form of the Mass would dwindle or even die when it is banished.
这引起了一些天主教徒的反击，他们担心在提供旧式弥撒时增长的教区会在被放逐时减少甚至死亡。
—Washington Times
“Russia is almost certainly increasingly sourcing weaponry from other heavily sanctioned states like Iran and North Korea as its own stocks dwindle,” British intelligence officials wrote in a Twitter post.
英国情报官员在推特上写道：“几乎可以肯定，随着俄罗斯自身库存的减少，俄罗斯越来越多地从伊朗和朝鲜等其他受到严厉制裁的国家采购武器。”
—Washington Times
Even as old-school reporting jobs dwindled, Mr. German’s watchdog articles and columns pried back the curtain on mobsters, crooked politicians, casino titans and just about anyone who misused wealth or power in the city.
即使老派的报道工作减少了，德国人的监督文章和专栏也揭开了暴徒、不正当政客、赌场巨头以及几乎任何滥用城市财富或权力的人的面纱。
—New York Times
基本释意：
verb
become smaller or lose substance
v. （逐渐）减少，变小；使缩小，使减少
同义词：
dwindle away,dwindle down,
短释义：
What do love, money, and the earth all have in common? All can dwindle, or shrink away, if we don’t handle them properly.
爱情、金钱和地球有什么共同点？如果我们处理不当，一切都会缩小或缩小。
长释义：
The word dwindle has a wonderfully descriptive, almost childlike sound to it, as though it belongs in a nursery rhyme. That might help you remember the meaning, which is to shrink away gradually, like the Cheshire Cat in "Alice in Wonderland," who dwindles away until nothing is left but his grin.
dwindle 这个词有一种奇妙的描述性，几乎像孩子一样的声音，就好像它属于一首童谣。这可能会帮助您记住逐渐缩小的含义，就像“爱丽丝梦游仙境”中的柴郡猫一样，它会缩小直到只剩下他的笑容。
文学例句：
In the “cold carton,” the ABC strain had nearly doubled, while the CBA had dwindled.
在“冷纸盒”中，ABC 菌株几乎翻了一番，而 CBA 则减少了。
—The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
As the war raged and the staff dwindled, I moved from stocking supplies to assisting him in surgery.
随着战争的肆虐和工作人员的减少，我从储备物资转向协助他进行手术。
—Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
She was still in that hallway, hearing those screams and their terrible, bloody dwindle.
她仍然在那个走廊里，听到那些尖叫声和可怕的血腥声。
—Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
词源：
dwindle (v.)"diminish, become less, shrink," 1590s (Shakespeare), apparently diminutive and frequentative of dwine "waste or pine away," from Middle English dwinen "waste away, fade, vanish," from Old English dwinan, from Proto-Germanic dwinana (source also of Dutch dwijnen "to vanish," Old Norse dvina, Danish tvine "to pine away," Low German dwinen), from PIE dheu- (3) "to die" (see die (v.)). Related: Dwindled; dwindling.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
dwindle (v.)“减少，变少，缩小”，1590 年代（莎士比亚），显然是 dwine “浪费或松树”的缩小和频繁出现，来自中古英语 dwinen “浪费，褪色，消失”，来自古英语 dwinan，源自原始日耳曼语 dwinana（也源自荷兰语 dwijnen “消失”，古诺尔斯语 dvina，丹麦语 tvine “松软”，低地德语 dwinen），源自 PIE dheu- (3) “死亡”（参见 die (五））。相关：减少；减少。相关条目及更多
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