diminishment

缩减（diminish的变体） 贬低（diminish的变体）

词形变化

diminishments 复数 diminishments

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The act of diminishing; reducing in size, quantity, or quality.

    可数 不可数

    1902, G. K. Chesterton, “The Characteristics of Robert Louis Stevenson” in G. K. Chesterton and William Robertson Nicoll, Robert Louis Stevenson, London: Hodder and Stoughton, p. 9, All great men possess in themselves the qualities which will certainly lay them open to censure and diminishment; but these inevitable deficiencies in the greatness of great men vary in the widest degree of variety.

    1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, New York: Vintage, 1946, Appendix, “Quentin,” p. 424, […] this was Jason’s rage, the red unbearable fury which on that night and at intervals recurring with little or no diminishment for the next five years, made him seriously believe would at some unwarned instant destroy him […]

词源

From diminish + -ment.

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