waning的意思|waning的解释-里氏词典

waning ['weiniŋ]

(月亮)渐亏的, 逐渐减弱或变小的
月亏

The moon waxes and wanes every month.
月亮每个月都有盈亏。
The moon wax till it become full, and then wane.
月亮渐渐变圆直至满盈，然後再变亏缺。

waning

[ noun ]

a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent

<noun.event>

the waning of his enthusiasm was obvious

the waxing and waning of the moon

[ adj ]

(of the Moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases

<adj.all>

after full moon comes the waning moon

Waning \Wan"ing\, n.
The act or process of waning, or decreasing.

This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings,
and sometimes her eclipses. --Bp. Hall.

Wane \Wane\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Waning}.] [OE. wanien, AS. wanian, wonian, from wan, won,
deficient, wanting; akin to D. wan-, G. wahnsinn, insanity,
OHG. wan, wana-, lacking, wan?n to lessen, Icel. vanr
lacking, Goth. vans; cf. Gr. ? bereaved, Skr. ?na wanting,
inferior. ????. Cf. {Want} lack, and {Wanton}.]
1. To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with {wax},
and especially applied to the illuminated part of the
moon.

Like the moon, aye wax ye and wane.
Waning moons their settled periods keep. --Addison.

2. To decline; to fail; to sink.

You saw but sorrow in its waning form. --Dryden.

Land and trade ever will wax and wane together.
--Sir J.
Child.

But when interferon, a protein touted as a cure-all, proved useful against only one or two rare cancers, some companies got caught in the downdraft of waning investor support.
A state judge refused to grant an injunction Wednesday for parishioners hoping to keep open 14 Roman Catholic churches set to be closed in an effort to consolidate waning membership and finances.
Curtis Emerson Lemay, who directed the air assault over Japan in the waning years of World War II, died of a heart attack Monday at a base hospital.
Williams said there was "little, if any, chance" that the previously approved authorization bill would survive in the waning days of an election-year Congress that is mired in a budget crisis.
In the waning months of the Reagan administration, the bank board under Wall concluded scores of bailout deals _ more than 200 in 1988, over 70 in December alone.
"There's a bit of a popular notion that labor unions are waning and that strikes are no longer useful.
The index, compiled by Harold W. Gourgues Jr., an Atlanta newsletter publisher, aims to detect the waxing and waning of financial fads by tracking investment ads.
In the countryside, on the other hand, farmers have access to a free market, and their direct reliance on the state is waning.
Now, with a waning economy, "our guess is we're having net out-migration," says Rosemary Scanlon, chief economist for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
In the view of old-line Riversiders, however, the church's waning influence nearly dwarfs its money troubles.
But Mr. Brady is unlikely to try to change the administration's position in its waning weeks.
Fitzwater sometimes found himself, as White House spokesman in the waning weeks of the Reagan administration, straddling the fence between present and future bosses.
Trading in gold and silver was quiet at the New York Mercantile Exchange, where traders are moving cautiously in the waning days before the U.S. presidential election, Ms. Raptopoulous said.
I'll never make the same mistake again." The Estonian Communist Party has removed 22 officials in a bid to halt its own waning popularity, officials and journalists said Friday.
Cavazos was president of Texas Tech when he became the first Hispanic Cabinet official in the waning days of the Reagan administration.
Those factors, coupled with waning demand for U.S. Treasury securities and an ample supply, are depressing bond prices.
London trading was the strongest of the week, though waning enthusiasm late in the day led the market to trim much of its early gains.
Reports Friday said he had lost 37 pounds from his normal weight and is down to 66 pounds. Maeda said his strength is waning and he speaks infrequently.
Foreign firms also lost their attractiveness because of waning profitability and worsening external conditions, such as recessionary economies.
In a series of Republican campaign appearances, President Bush pointedly refused to rule out the use of force to push Iraqi troops out of occupied Kuwait and said his patience was waning.
Given Volvo's waning fortunes in recent years, it is no surprise that its French partner should have come out on top in its automotive merger negotiations.
"There's no sign of the bitterness waning."
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers who for more than a year have wanted to use trade to punish China's repression of democracy say they have pretty much given up the idea in the waning days of the Congressional session.
Maybe the vigor is waning because the "magic" is gone.
They say the government needs to "manage" trade in technologies critical to the sources of waning U.S. strength, such as semiconductors, and to adopt industrial policies to bolster them.
Richard John Neuhaus's "The Naked Public Square" is one of the wisest books yet written on the waning role of religion in the U.S.
In the waning months of each fiscal year, he always finds himself short of cash and has to ask Congress for more.
The Peruvian action didn't come as a major surprise because the impact of the strike had been waning, Mr. Hirsch said.
This underlines its waning fortunes. By contrast, the Christian Democrats' old rivals, the communists now transformed into the PDS, could turn a system of alliances into a large number of mayoral wins.
On the other hand, the appetite for dBASE is waning, and Borland could be stuck with a database dinosaur in a few years.

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