The numbers attending these meetings have dwindled away(down)terribly

出席这些会议的人数急剧减少。

Drought has dwindled the crops

干旱使农作物歉收。

The factory’s workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred.

工厂雇员总数已经从4,000多人减少到几百人。

The guests began to leave, the Party dwindled down

客人们开始走了，留下来的人已寥寥无己。

Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes: all three, great men to their own age, have dwindled subsequently

朗费罗、洛威尔、霍姆斯三个，都不失为他们那个时代的伟人，后来却大为退色了。

The number of pedestrians gradually dwindled .

路上的行人渐渐少了。

The boat gradually dwindled to a speck

那条船渐渐变成一个小点。

Though the friendship dwindled away, much to Melville’s regret, it was a vital tonic to him while he was engaged on Moby Dick

使梅尔维尔遗憾的是，后来二人的交情日疏，可是在他写《白鲸》时，这段友情对于他却是十分重要的。

His wealth dwindled into nothing.

他的财产化为乌有。

His fortune dwindled to a few hundred pounds.

他的财产减少到几百英镑了。

His boon companions had dwindled away from his side, leaving the poor fellow without a soul to countenance him in sipping his liquor

他的酒友在他身边一个一个少了下去，使这可怜的家伙在举杯饮啜时没有一个人在旁替他助兴壮胆。

His fame dwindled .

他的名声低落了。

His wealth dwindled into nothingness

他的钱财化为乌有。

They dwindled all other developments to insignificance

他们把其他所有发展项目减少到没有意义的程度。

Their savings have dwindled (away)to nothing.

他们的存款已减少到分文不剩了.

Hopes for their safety dwindled .

他们会平安无事的希望变得渺茫了。

Failing health dwindled ambition

体弱雄心减。

My savings have dwindled .

我的积蓄减少了

My social life has dwindled to nothing

我的社交活动已逐渐减少，直到完全停止。

The fortune he inherited gradually dwindled to a few hundred pounds as the result of his extravagance

由于挥霍无度，他继承的财产最终只剩下几百英镑。

Our food supply dwindled after we were lost in the woods.

在森林中迷失后，我们的食物供应渐渐减缩。

In its light everything else dwindled and fell away from her

在这种光照下，世界上的其它一切都黯然失色，并且从她眼前隐没了。

At one time, due to excessive herding and reckless deforestation, the ecological environment of the mountain area was severely damaged, and the resources of animals and plants significantly dwindled

曾有一段时期，由于过度放牧和肆意毁林，山区生态环境遭到严重破坏，动植物资源明显减少。

The idea that character is etched into an individual’s face is so much at variance with modern notions of free will that research in the area dwindled long ago.

"相由心生"的观点严重违背了"自由意志"的现代观念，因此有关于面相与性格关系的研究少之又少。

||1: By then, the 75 prisoners they were campaigning for had been released; most by the intervention of the Catholic Church and the government of Spain, but around 20 by their own efforts. ||2: Héctor, gaunt and thin, came out only last February. ||3: The numbers of Ladies dwindled , to 15 or so, as their work seemed to be done. ||4: But for Ms Pollan it was not done. Her Ladies had to go on marching as long as the laws remained that could fill the prisons again. ||5: As long as Cuba was not free, she would go on sitting at her computer with her little dog stretched out on the tiles beside her, alert for the telephone, with her front door open and Santa Rita at the ready, and the ceiling fan turning slowly in the smothering air.

||1:到此时，她们为之抗争的75名囚犯已经被释放，大部分人释放是由于天主教会和西班牙政府的干预，其中有20人的释放是通过她们的努力。||2:憔悴而瘦弱的赫克托在去年二月才被释放。||3:此时她的团体慢慢变小了，现只剩下15人左右，她们的目的似乎实现了。||4:但是对于普兰女士来说，只要那些把人民随意投入监狱的法律仍然存在，“白衣女士”会持续她们的抗议示威。||5:只要古巴还不是自由之国（民主国家？），普兰女士仍将坐在她的电脑边上，她的小狗躺在她的脚边，灰色地砖花纹延伸开去，她还在等着电话，她的家门仍旧敞开，圣丽塔雕像已经备好，在沉闷的空气中屋顶吊扇正缓缓地转动着……

||1:Readers may now find Rotblat’s idealism naive.||2:Talk of total nuclear disarmament seems idle in a world with nine nuclear powers and a simmering crisis over a possible tenth.||3:Yet the pessimism of the 1950s has proved overblown as well: nuclear weapons have proliferated much more slowly than many feared at the dawn of the atomic age, and stockpiles have dwindled since the height of the cold war.||4:For Rotblat, to be accused of idealism was no bad thing.

||1:读后如今可能觉得罗特布拉特的理想简单幼稚，对于一个有九个核电站，还有一个蠢蠢欲动，马上要建的世界，聊聊完全的核裁军简直是一场空谈。||2:然而，20世纪50年代也对核武器的悲观情绪进行了过度渲染，事实证明：核武器扩散速度比在人们担心的原子能初期放慢了许多，核物质储备也自冷战高潮以来减少。||3:对罗特布拉特而言，背上理想主义的罪名也不是个坏事。||4:他喜欢引用好友罗素的话说：“不要为自己持独特看法而感到害怕，因为我们现在所接受的常识都曾是独特看法。

||1: Their next leader is a living embodiment of that shift. ||2: Mr Luter took over Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in 1986, when the congregation had dwindled to a few dozen because its mostly white membership had fled to the suburbs. ||3: Mr Luter built it into a mostly black gathering that had 7,000 members when Hurricane Katrina struck, in 2005. ||4: The church, which stood in nine feet (three metres) of water after the storm, has been rebuilt; its flock now numbers about 5,000.

||1:教会的下任会长就是这一转变生生的体现。||2:路特于1986年接管富兰克林街道浸信会教堂，当时该教区信徒数目已缩小到了几十人，因为很多白人会员已经逃往郊区。||3:路特一手把该教区发展光大，到2005年“卡特里娜”飓风来袭时，该教区已经有7千名信徒了，大多是黑人。||4:教堂因飓风进水达3米，已经重建。现在的会员已接近5000人。

The idea that character is etched into an individual’s face is so much at variance with modern notions of free will that research in the area dwindled long ago.

人的性格特征蚀刻在脸上这一想法跟现代自由抉择的观念差异很大，而现代自由抉择观念的研究领域很久以前就缩小了。

"My diet sort of dwindled away, " she says.

“我逐渐不那么严格遵守膳食计划了，”她说道。

Hopes that the EFSF could be used to facilitate a voluntary reduction in debt, notably Greece’s towering 140% of GDP, have dwindled .

EFSF曾经所力促的主动削减债务（特别是希腊高筑的占GDP140%的债务）的希望已经很渺茫。