wither away

常見例句

Thanks to that, time encountered the same sad fate as many other nationalized entities: it began to wither away.
時間于是遭遇了和很多其他被國有化的東西一樣的悲慘命運：它開始枯萎凋謝。
Your true love is the sunshine warming my life. My life will wither away in the coldness and darkness if I lose your love.
你的真愛卻是照徹我生命的溫暖陽光，失去它，我的生命將在黑暗凄冷中枯萎。
But instead of flourishing in the early postnatal days, the synapses of the somatosensory cortex wither away when degus are raised without a father.
但如果八齒鼠缺少了父親的養(yǎng)育，原本應在出生后早期階段生長繁茂的軀體感覺皮質(zhì)的神經(jīng)突觸將會萎縮。

In the best regime if we were to inhabit such political philosophy would be unnecessary or redundant. It would wither away.
如果我們身處最優(yōu)政體之中,壓根不需要政治哲學,其亦顯得累贅，而會逐漸消逝。
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