diminish是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 减小, 减少, 缩小，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then by degrees his tall form began to diminish in size, till at last his friends of a day lost sight of him altogether.
-- "Do you want to have us killed one by one to diminish our force, and put us at the mercy of these wretches?
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You may be cajoled into imagining that your own special trade or your own industry will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but it stands to reason that such legislation must in the long run keep away wealth from the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general conditions of life in this island.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even her death did not much diminish the hardships of the young man's struggle for existence.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was the familiar friend of everyone with whom he took a glass of champagne, and he took a glass of champagne with everyone, and when in consequence he met any of his disreputable chums, as he used in joke to call many of his friends, in the presence of his subordinates, he well knew how, with his characteristic tact, to diminish the disagreeable impression made on them.
-- The fact that this reflection was but one of millions of reflections, which as Mihailov knew for certain would be true, did not diminish for him the significance of Golenishtchev's remark.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would seem that the domestics had been previously instructed; for, instead of penetrating the thicket, they fol-lowed the route of the column; a measure which Heyward stated had been dictated by the sagacity of their guide, in order to diminish the marks of their trail, if, haply, the Ca-nadian savages should be lurking so far in advance of their army.
-- You will then, pardon me, Alice, should I diminish your enjoyments, by requesting this gentleman to postpone his chant until a safer opportunity.'
-- 'You will diminish them, indeed,' returned the arch girl; 'for never did I hear a more unworthy conjunction of execu-tion and language than that to which I have been listening; and I was far gone in a learned inquiry into the causes of such an unfitness between sound and sense, when you broke the charm of my musings by that bass of yours, Duncan!'
-- 'To increase the horror of our capture, and to diminish the chances of our release!Go, generous young man,' Cora continued, lowering her eyes under the gaze of the Mohican, and perhaps, with an intuitive consciousness of her power; 'go to my father, as I have said, and be the most confidential of my messengers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh dear, yes, Master Copperfield,' he proceeded, in a soft voice,most remarkably contrasting with the action of his thumb, whichdid not diminish its hard pressure in the least degree, 'there's nodoubt of it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not until they had seen him gradually diminish into a mere speck upon the distant road, that they turned to each other, and ventured to laugh aloud.
-- It needed a strong confidence in this assurance to induce them to enter, and what they saw inside did not diminish their apprehension and alarm.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The maltster's lack of teeth appeared not to sensibly diminish his powers as a mill.
-- After midnight the voice of a clock seems to lose in breadth as much as in length, and to diminish its sonorousness to a thin falsetto.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is true that the intensity of weight will diminish just in proportion to the depth to which we go.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They believed that foreigners were always badly off; and though they were as ill off themselves as they could desire to be, that did not diminish the force of the objection.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But turning to the steersman, who thus far had been holding the ship in the wind to diminish her headway, he cried out in his old lion voice, "Up helm!Keep her off round the world!"
-- Nor does it at all diminish the curiousness of this matter, that to many thousands of our rural boys and young men born along its line, the probationary life of the Grand Canal furnishes the sole transition between quietly reaping in a Christian corn-field, and recklessly ploughing the waters of the most barbaric seas.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatever were Mr. Bumble's intentions, however (and no doubt they were of the best): it unfortunately happened, as has been twice before remarked, that the table was a round one; consequently Mr. Bumble, moving his chair by little and little, soon began to diminish the distance between himself and the matron; and, continuing to travel round the outer edge of the circle, brought his chair, in time, close to that in which the matron was seated.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Here," replied the engineer, showing the sturdy sailor a considerable recess in the side, which would much diminish the thickness.
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