subsides

英 [səbˈsaɪdz]

美 [səbˈsaɪdz]

v.  趋于平静; 平息; 减弱; 消退; 回落; 减退; 下沉; 沉降; 下陷
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柯林斯词典

• VERB (感情)平息，缓和，趋于平静;(噪音)减弱，降低
  If a feeling or noisesubsides, it becomes less strong or loud.
  1. The pain had subsided during the night...
     晚间疼痛已经减轻了。
  2. Catherine's sobs finally subsided.
     凯瑟琳终于慢慢停止了抽泣。
• VERB (争斗)平息，平静
  If fightingsubsides, it becomes less intense or general.
  1. Violence has subsided following two days of riots.
     两天的暴乱过后，暴力事件开始平息。
• VERB (地面、建筑物)下沉，沉降，下陷
  If the ground or a buildingis subsiding, it is very slowly sinking to a lower level.
  1. Does that mean the whole house is subsiding?
     那意味着整个房子正在下陷吗？
• VERB (水位)回落;(尤指洪水)减退，消退
  If a level of water, especially flood water,subsides, it goes down.
  1. Local officials say the flood waters have subsided.
     当地官员称洪水已经退去了。

双语例句

• In time, the periods between pendulum swings get longer and gradually the pain subsides.
  随着时间的流逝，钟摆摆动的间隔变得更长，慢慢地痛苦就平息了。
• We may imagine the electron vibrating for a moment as it subsides into the smaller orbit.
  我们可以想象，电子跳入小轨道时振动一会儿。
• But as they move from full-time work to Jesus-when-will-this-day-finally-end work, the joy of labor subsides.
  但是当他们从全职工作转为上帝啊什么时候今天的工作才彻底结束这样的工作时，劳动的快乐便荡然无存。
• When shaking ends or subsides, turn off gas lines.
  地震停止或平息后，关闭瓦斯。
• Thick accumulations of peat can form only if the swamp basin slowly subsides.
  只有当沼泽盆地慢慢下陷时，厚厚的泥炭堆积才能形成。
• We have good intentions and plan to come back after the time crunch at hand subsides, but we seldom do that.
  当紧迫的时间稍微缓和之后，我们应该有很好的目的和计划返回来检查，但是我们却很少这样做。
• The need for close co-ordination is not going to disappear when the crisis subsides.
  密切协调的必要性并不会随着危机的消退而消失。
• By then, youthful selfishness subsides and people begin to consider others 'feelings more often, researchers say.
  研究者还说，到那时候，年轻时候的自我中心观念减弱，他们开始经常顾虑别人的感受。
• Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
  友谊可能经常发展成爱情，但是爱情却永远不会下降为友谊。
• Negotiators failed to resolve the bitter dispute between the European Community and the United States over cutting subsides to farmers.
  谈判者未能消弭欧共体和美国之间在削减农民补贴一事上的争端。