declinevt.
1. bend down低下。
△Lr.4.2.22: “Decline yourhead.”i.e.for a kiss. 低下頭來。
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 仔細溫習，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。
△H.VIII.3.2.375(374): “Canthy spirit wonder / A great man should decline?” 大人物也會垮臺，你心里覺得奇怪嗎？
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)，”再不然因為我陷入了年歲的低谷（上了年紀），其實我并不算老。
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…不負任何責任
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放棄罰球權利
decline bench press下斜式推舉
decline draft拒付
decline in prices物價下跌
decline in quotations行情下降
decline in the dollar美元貶值
decline of export markets出口市場縮小
decline phase衰退期
decline... points下降…百分點
decline press角度推練習
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
declining years老年，垂暮之年
declinable adj. 可變格的
declinal adj. |