wither away

常见例句

Thanks to that, time encountered the same sad fate as many other nationalized entities: it began to wither away.
时间于是遭遇了和很多其他被国有化的东西一样的悲惨命运：它开始枯萎凋谢。
Your true love is the sunshine warming my life. My life will wither away in the coldness and darkness if I lose your love.
你的真爱却是照彻我生命的温暖阳光，失去它，我的生命将在黑暗凄冷中枯萎。
But instead of flourishing in the early postnatal days, the synapses of the somatosensory cortex wither away when degus are raised without a father.
但如果八齿鼠缺少了父亲的养育，原本应在出生后早期阶段生长繁茂的躯体感觉皮质的神经突触将会萎缩。

In the best regime if we were to inhabit such political philosophy would be unnecessary or redundant. It would wither away.
如果我们身处最优政体之中,压根不需要政治哲学,其亦显得累赘，而会逐渐消逝。
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