Decline

(noun.) change toward something smaller or lower.

(noun.) a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state.

(verb.) grow smaller; 'Interest in the project waned'.

(verb.) inflect for number, gender, case, etc., 'in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives'.

(verb.) go down in value; 'the stock market corrected'; 'prices slumped'.

(verb.) go down; 'The roof declines here'.

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• Do you decline to take those letters, Mr. Copperfield? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Eustacia might possibly decline to use her pen--it was rather her way to work silently--and surprise him by appearing at his door. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• To Leinster's joy and our astonishment, Lord Worcester said he must really decline my very polite offer, grateful as he felt for it. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• This led him to review the existing state of affairs (1780) and to compare it with the state of affairs during the decline of imperial Rome. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A man may, from various motives, decline to give his company, but perhaps not even a sage would be gratified that nobody missed him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• You decline it, Sir? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• But it was easy to die like a Turk, by a dogged decline. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Investigation of these cases, however, revealed invariably the purely fraudulent nature of all such offers, which were uniformly declined. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Miss Kate and Mr. Brooke, Meg, and Ned declined, but Fred, Sallie, Jo, and Laurie piled and drew, and the lot fell to Laurie. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Floyd turned over the command to Pillow, who declined it. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• When I knocked for admission a priest came to the door who, while extremely polite, declined to admit us. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It is needless to say that I declined to understand that he was offended with me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Mrs. Strong had declined to play, on the ground of not feeling very well; and her cousin Maldon had excused himself because he had some packing to do. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I said, with withering irony, that it was sufficient to be skinned--I declined to be scalped. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In the mean time Keimer's credit and business declining daily, he was at last forced to sell his printing-house to satisfy his creditors. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• I thought he meant to try his skill, by his manner of declining it yesterday. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• In an age when religious faith was declining, we find men displaying a new and vivid belief in the reality of these personifications. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If you give those names to my thanking you for your proposal and declining it, is it my fault, Mr Headstone? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The worst excuse a soldier can make for declining service is that he once ranked the commander he is ordered to report to. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It ended in my flatly declining to mention the subject to Laura, unless she first approached it of her own accord. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Say, Plornish, though six weeks in arrear to my proprietor, declines. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Life will ebb and flow to and from every region seasonally as the interest of that region rises or declines. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Tom Moody rides up to the door of the Hall, where he is welcomed by the butler, who offers him drink, which he declines. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Declines to marry? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Mortimer looks gloomy, and declines to answer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He declines to choose a profession. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Henry is entreating her to come; she declines. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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