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

• When shaking ends or subsides, turn off gas lines.
  地震停止或平息后，关闭瓦斯。
• 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。
• There is no reason yet to doubt his promise to tackle the budget deficit once the crisis subsides.
  目前还没有理由可以怀疑他的承诺：一旦金融危机消退，他会立即处理国家的预算赤字。
• 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。
• 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。
• Stay with him for a while until your brother's fury subsides.
  同他住些日子，直等你哥哥的怒气消了。
• 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。
• Many steel plants were closed, and in a few years those which survived were no longer needing subsides.
  很多钢铁厂被关闭，几年之后那些幸存下来的工厂也不再能得到政府援助。
• 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。
• Once the euphoria surrounding this victory subsides, reality must return.
  这场胜利的喜悦退去后，人们将不得不回归现实。