例文・使い方で印象づける「diminished」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... his hurrahs diminished in heartiness... 
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...This feltcould then be obtained by a simple operation which, if it diminished theflexibility of the stuff, increased its power of retaining heat inproportion...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
... The king had preserved his eye dry and his countenance severe; but the blood had mounted to his cheeks, and the firmness of his look was visibly diminished...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
... Gradually the uproar wore itself out, and diminished so that at last the President could make himself heard...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
... The diminished party was moving at foot-pace in the darkness that seemed to grow denser at every step, and through that silence which was so full of mysterious sounds...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...Higher up, where rocks and rapids interfered with the boat-voyage, the current was considerable, but the breadth diminished to 600 feet...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...In proportion as prejudice has diminished, they have gradually advanced; nor can I believe that there is any other great impediment in the way to a higher state of improvement...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
..." And thus it is that the income upon which he calculated gets diminished by one-tenth,—he at the same time not even suspecting the cause of this diminution...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...The number of digitsbecomes diminished, so that in ruminants there are notmore than two, and in the horse but one...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...Has not the British wild-fowl supply greatly decreasedduring the past fifteen years? I strongly suspect that a carefulinvestigation would reveal the fact that it has diminished...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The anglers have steadily diminished the weight of the rod and thesize of the line; and they have prohibited the use of gang hooks andnets...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...After that the numberannually diminished rapidly, and for several yearspast not one raven had been killed...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds and Man」
...During the time of the continentalelevation these lakes were raised above the sea level,and their size very much diminished...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...Theproboscis fellow had increased and rounded his body,and diminished his nose; while Mr...
Henry J. Slack 「Marvels of Pond-life」
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