declinevt.
1. bend down低下。
△Lr.4.2.22: “Decline yourhead.”i.e.for a kiss. 低下头来。
2. lean使…倚靠。
△Ham.3.2.146(135)s.d:“Hetakes her up and declines his head upon her neck.”他扶她起立，垂头偎其颈。
3. go over in detail,go through from beginning toend. recite in order 仔细温习，从头至尾考虑，按顺序背诵。
△R.III.4.4.97: “Decline all this. and see what nowthou art. ”把这一切从头至尾想一想，再看看你现在成了什么人。
4. inflect(in grammar),give the changes in the ter-mination of a word使（单词）发生词尾变化。
△Wiv.4.1.42 (40): “Articles are borrowed of the pronoun. andbe thus declined.”冠词是从代词借来的，有如下的词尾变化
～ vi.
1. descend,fall降下，降落。
△Ham.2.2.508 (478):“Which was declining on the milky head / Of rever-end Priam，”那刀正要落向老迈的普赖姆的白发苍苍的头顶。decline upon: sink down to. descend upon跌落到，下降到。
△Ham.1.5. 50:“and to decline / Upon a wretchwhose natural gifts were poor╱ To those of mine!”竟然屈尊下嫁给那么一个坏蛋，他的天赋的才德与我相比不知要低多少倍！
2. sink,fall倒下，垮台。
△H.VIII.3.2.375(374): “Canthy spirit wonder / A great man should decline?” 大人物也会垮台，你心里觉得奇怪吗？
3. sink down,fall下陷，下降。
△Oth.3.3.265:“or forI am declined / Into the vale of years (yet that’s nomuch)，”再不然因为我陷入了年岁的低谷（上了年纪），其实我并不算老。
4. incline倾心。
△Com.3.2.44: “ to you do I de-cline，”我倾心于你。 decline[diˈklain]v.下降，降低，倾斜，衰落，减少，谢绝，拒绝
◇decline all responsibility for声明对…不负任何责任
decline with thanks谢绝
fall into a decline失去…/fall into decline衰落
go into a decline下降（退）/on the decline在衰退，倾斜
‖ decline a penalty放弃罚球权利
decline bench press下斜式推举
decline draft拒付
decline in prices物价下跌
decline in quotations行情下降
decline in the dollar美元贬值
decline of export markets出口市场缩小
decline phase衰退期
decline... points下降…百分点
decline press角度推练习
decline to receive a guest挡驾
decline with thanks谢绝
declined gambit拒吃弃兵局
declining markets衰退市场
declining years老年，垂暮之年
declinable adj. 可变格的
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