1.减少,变小,缩小;变瘦
2.衰落;变坏,退化
3.使缩小,使减少
1.to become gradually less or smaller over a period of time until almost nothing remains
1.But the half-life of market domination seems to be dwindling.
但是似乎这些公司的垄断半衰期一直在缩短。
2.Gbagbo's popular support may be dwindling as he cracks down on the population in his bid to cling to power.
巴博总统的民众支持可能会减少，因为他对人民的镇压，他为了攫取权力。
3.They think food and energy prices can only rise for so long in a weak economy before dwindling demand for stuff cuts off the rise in prices.
他们认为，在物品需求削减从而抑制物价上涨前，食品和能源的价格将在经济疲软的美国继续上升。
4.Being led to believe that old age is a nothing but a burden to others does not make the "dwindling" period any easier.
即便你去相信，人老后只是他人的累赘，“老化”的阶段也不会变得容易。
5.And the Wall Street Journal said, the company is taking the advantage of Google's dwindling business in China to enlarge its shares.
美国《华尔街日报》称，百度正利用谷歌在华业务的萎缩趁机做大。
6.Support for a compromise, or at least for the fudge embodied by the continuing resolutions, is dwindling.
对妥协，至少是继续决议体现的敷衍方法的支持正在减少。
7.Only a dwindling minority are prepared to do this, and then only if China eventually agrees to similar legally binding emissions targets.
只有少数国家愿意这么做，而且即使是这些国家也提出，这必须以中国最终接受有法律约束力的类似减排目标为前提。
8.Without rain, the land began to turn to the desert that we know today, leaving people and animals to seek ever-dwindling sources of water.
没有了雨水，土地开始沙化，逐渐演变成我们今天所熟悉的大沙漠，迫使人类与动物背井离乡，到处寻找日益减少的水源。
9.And it is all the direct result of the G8's dwindling importance in the global economy.
这也正全是G8在全球经济中的重要性日渐下降的直接结果。
10.Thousands of civilians are trapped, with dwindling supplies of clean water and food. Hundreds are alleged to have been killed or maimed.
本次行动还导致了上千名缺乏清洁水源及食物的平民被困住，据称还有上百名平民死亡或伤残。