diminution meaning in English
n.
1.减少，减缩，缩小。
2.【建筑】(柱子等的)逐渐变尖。
Examples
- They hope for a small diminution in taxes .
他们希望捐税能稍有减少。 - Any local diminution of blood supply will delay or prevent healing .
任何局部供血的减少将延迟或阻碍愈合。 - Midnight arrived, and the enthusiasm showed no signs of diminution .
已经敲过了十二点了，热烈的气氛还没有降低。 - The progress of science has seemed to mean the enlargement of the material universe and the diminution of man's importance .
科学的进步似乎意味着把物质的宇宙扩大，把人的重要性缩小了。 - When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity .
当利润减少时，商人们往往都埋怨说，商业衰退了，可是利润减少乃是商业繁盛的自然结果。