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n.
名詞
- 衰退（期），衰微
- 缺損
- 月虧（期），虧缺
- 減少，減弱，變弱
- 沒落，衰落，敗落
- 鈍棱
- 變小
- 缺角方木
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動詞
- 缺；缺損
- 變暗淡
- 沒落，衰落，衰敗，敗落
- 退潮
- 減弱，變弱
- 虧，虧缺
- 衰微，衰退
- 減少
- 消逝，過去
- 將近尾聲
- 越來越松
- 變小
- 呈下弦
Noun:
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a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
Verb:
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grow smaller;
"Interest in the project waned"
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become smaller;
"Interest in his novels waned"
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decrease in phase;
"the moon is waning"
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用作名詞 (n.)
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The empire was on the wane after its period of prosperity.
王國歷經全盛已經越來越衰落。
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By now the power of the Roman Empire was on the wane.
到這時候，雅典帝國下載已急劇衰敗。
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Why should the moon have wax and wane?
為怎樣的肯定會月有陰晴圓缺?
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The sick man's strength is on the wane.
病員的體力值越變越弱。
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The government's popularity is on the wane.
人民政府的威望日益增長焦躁。
用作動詞 (v.)
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As time went on, so their hopes began to wane.
隨日期的飛逝，用戶的也希望起越發渺茫。
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The moon waxes and wanes every month.
嫦娥每一家月還有盈虧。
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When the moon is at its full, it begins to wane.
月盈則虧。
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She, like a moon in wane, Faded before him.
選自： Keats
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That which grows is said to wax, and that which decays to wane.
出至： B. Jowett
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海詞英語詞典，二十七年企業品牌
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