Adjective:

1. becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so;

   "diminishing returns"
   "his diminishing respect for her"
   

Universities are facing grave problems because of diminishing resources.

由于资源的减少，大学正面临严峻的问题。

The world's resources are rapidly diminishing.

世界资源正在迅速减少。

The unskilled section of the working class was diminishing as a proportion of the workforce.

劳动力中非熟练工人的人数正在减少.

Costs rapidly escalated , and the potential ' pay - off ' for alloy development was diminishing.

费用增加, 而用于合金发展的 经费 来源却反而减少.

diminishing marginal utility also expresses a ' variety is the spice of life '.

边际效用递减也表现为一种 “ 多样化是生活乐趣 ”.

And while the supply of freshwater is theoretically always the same, in reality it's diminishing.

尽管从理论上说,淡水的水源是保持不变的, 但是事实上淡水的供应量正在减少.

This process is never completed, but it disobeys the law of diminishing returns.

这个过程是无止境的, 可是这违背了报酬递减律.

As a result, they are subject to rapidly diminishing returns to increased labor inputs.

结果,增加劳动投入, 反而使其收益迅速递减.

A trader preoccupied with indicators quickly reaches the point of diminishing returns.

交易者的指标太多,最终是收益越来越少.

That constraint seems to be diminishing by the day.

现在看来,这种抑制也开始每况愈下了.

At any rate, the size of new fields is diminishing.

无论怎样, 新油田的规模都在减小.

His own prospects for survival seemed to be diminishing.

他逃命的机会似乎愈来愈少了.

Results obtained total variation diminishing ( TVD ) scheme are compared to experimental results.

计算得到的容器 壁面 载荷分布与实验结果基本一致.

Yet this simple arithmetic ignores an offsetting effect: diminishing marginal returns.

然而,这种简单的算法忽略了一种抵消效应: 边际收益递减.

diminishing marginal returns can account for the inevitability of the downward trend.

但这种影响在下降,边际效应递减模型可以解释这种下降趋势的必然性.