wane

英 [weɪn] 美 [wen]

解释

※ 提供单词"wane"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

wane 衰落

来自Proto-Germanic*wano,缺乏，空无，词源同want,waste。引申词义衰弱。

wane: wane: [OE] Wane and Norwegian vana ‘spoil, waste’ are the only survivors of a family of Germanic verbs that goes back to a prehistoric *wanōjan. This was derived from the base *wan- ‘lacking’, which also produced English want. The related but now defunct English adjective wane ‘lacking’ is represented in the first syllable of wanton.
=> want, wanton
wane (v.): Old English wanian "make or become smaller gradually, diminish, decline, fade," from Proto-Germanic *wanen (cognates: Old Saxon wanon, Old Norse vana, Old Frisian wania, Middle Dutch waenen, Old High German wanon "to wane, to grow less"), from *wano- "lacking," from PIE *we-no-, from root *eue- "to leave, abandon, give out" (see vain). Related: Waned; waning; wanes.

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4. 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。

5. In 1982, with his career prospects on the wane, 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。