n.(名词)

1. 衰退（期），衰微
2. 缺损
3. 月亏（期），亏缺
4. 减少，减弱，变弱
5. 没落，衰落，败落
6. 钝棱
7. 变小
8. 缺角方木

v.(动词)

1. 缺；缺损
2. 变暗淡
3. 没落，衰落，衰败，败落
4. 退潮
5. 减弱，变弱
6. 亏，亏缺
7. 衰微，衰退
8. 减少
9. 消逝，过去
10. 将近尾声
11. 越来越松
12. 变小
13. 呈下弦

Noun:

1. a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

Verb:

1. grow smaller;

   "Interest in the project waned"
   

2. become smaller;

   "Interest in his novels waned"
   

3. decrease in phase;

   "the moon is waning"
   

1.衰落;减少
If somethingwanes, it becomes gradually weaker or less, often so that it eventually disappears.

e.g. While his interest in these sports began towane, a passion for rugby developed.
他对这些运动项目的兴趣开始减退，倒是对橄榄球开始有了热情。
e.g. ...her mother's waning strength.
她母亲日渐不济的体力

2.减弱;衰落
If something ison the wane, it is becoming weaker or less.

e.g. He was nominally Deputy Prime Minister, certainly, but his influence was clearly on thewane...
当然，他名义上是副首相，但是显然他的影响力正在下降。
e.g. In 1982, with his career prospects on thewane, he sold a script for £5,000.
1982年，他的事业走下坡路时，以5,000英镑的价钱卖了个剧本。

3.(月)缺，亏
When the moonis waning, it is showing a smaller area of brightness each day as it changes from a full moon to a new moon.

e.g. The moon was waning, and each day it rose later.
月亮渐亏，每天出现的时间也越来越晚。
e.g. ...a sky silvered by a waning moon.
被下弦月染成银色的天空

1. 变小,减少：choral society 合唱团 |wane 变小,减少 | libel 诽谤

2.

2. 衰微; 退潮：passivity: 被动性 |wane:衰微; 退潮 | peril: 危险

3. wane的近义词

3. 变小：wax 增大 |wane 变小 | reverence 威望

4.

4. 圆木锯成板的边缘斜曲变小衰落月亏：wanderingsequence 跳焊法 |wane 圆木锯成板的边缘斜曲;变小;衰落;月亏 |wane 圆木锯成板的边缘斜曲变小衰落月亏

The empire was on the wane after its period of prosperity.

帝国经过全盛以后逐渐衰落。

By now the power of the Roman Empire was on the wane.

到这时，罗马帝国已日益衰败。

Why should the moon have wax and wane?

为什么一定会月有阴晴圆缺?

The sick man's strength is on the wane.

病人的体力越来越弱。

The government's popularity is on the wane.

政府的声望日益低落。

As time went on, so their hopes began to wane.

随着时间的消逝，他们的希望开始变得渺茫。

The moon waxes and wanes every month.

月亮每个月都有盈亏。

When the moon is at its full, it begins to wane.

月盈则亏。

Her enthusiasm for the whole idea was waning rapidly.

她对整个想法的热情迅速冷淡了下来。

Her popularity has been on the wane for some time.

她的人气一段时间以来江河日下。

While his interest in these sports began to wane, a passion for rugby developed.

他对这些运动项目的兴趣开始减退，倒是对橄榄球开始有了热情。

...her mother's waning strength.

她母亲日渐不济的体力

He was nominally Deputy Prime Minister, certainly, but his influence was clearly on the wane...

当然，他名义上是副首相，但是显然他的影响力正在下降。

In 1982, with his career prospects on the wane, he sold a script for 'u00a35,000.

1982年，他的事业走下坡路时，以5,000英镑的价钱卖了个剧本。

The moon was waning, and each day it rose later.

月亮渐亏，每天出现的时间也越来越晚。

...a sky silvered by a waning moon.

被下弦月染成银色的天空

The raging horse with red wane dominating racing track, is galloping freely and speeding deliberately!

主宰赛道的红鬃烈马, 自由的奔腾,任意的飞驰!

Why can to let our immature love equally beon the wane in the tonight flowers?

可为什么偏偏要让我们稚嫩的爱在今晚像花朵一样凋零?

As time went on, ( so ) their hopes began to wane.

随着时间的消逝, 他们的希望开始变得渺茫.

Youth's bloom may pass; its beauties wane, but so does its anguish and its pain.

少年时的花已凋谢; 美丽也消失,心灵上那种深深地痛楚, 也同样随之而流逝.

Her interest in the project is on the wane.

她对这个项目的兴趣正在减弱.

The prosperity of the country's shipping industry was on the wane.

该国航海业的繁荣正趋衰落.

The star power of British celebrities to be on the wane.

英国明星的影响力好像日渐衰微.

The IOC was in disarray, nearly bankrupt, and the Olympic movement seemed on the wane.

当时,国际奥委会正陷入一片混乱, 几近破产, 奥林匹克运动似乎正逐渐衰落.

If he deemed a choice vintage on the wane this might inspire a rush to sell.

如果他认为某种精品佳酿的品质开始走下坡路,那将引发一场抛售狂潮.

The moon waxes only to wane, brims only to overflow.

人有悲欢离合,月有阴晴圆缺.

Whatever popularity Esperanto has enjoyed is now on the wane.

即使世界语过去受到欢迎,现在也已经衰退了.

The government's popularity is on the wane.

政府的声望日益低落.

The tide was near the turn and already the day was on the wane ( James Joyce )

潮水即将退去,白昼已在衰减 ( 詹姆斯乔伊丝 )

The vitality of Latin was doomed to wane before the rivalry of the vernacular tongue.

拉丁语的持续性遇到本国语言的竞争而注定衰弱.

His fortune is on the wane.

他命运不济了.

After those thirty days the couple's love was believed to wane, like the moon.

这30天过后,据说夫妻俩的爱情就像月亮一样开始由盈专亏了.

Was his love already on the wane?

他的爱情已经衰减了 吗 ?

When the interest in art began to wane, the two fell to talking.

当他们对画画渐渐不再感兴趣时, 就开始说起话来.

The moon is on the wane.

月亮渐亏.

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• wane">on the wane日益衰落、衰弱, 日...
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• She, like a moon in wane, Faded before him.

  出自：Keats

• That which grows is said to wax, and that which decays to wane.

  出自：B. Jowett