And in the age of diminishing attention spans, it’s timely entertainment.

在注意力持续时间越来越短的时代，这是一种及时的娱乐。

The beauty of the island is unveiled as diminishing distance shows you in distincter shape its lovely peaks, but it keeps its secret as you sail by, and, darkly inviolable, seems to fold itself together in a stony, inaccessible grimness.

当距离逐渐缩小，美丽的峰峦形状愈加真切时，莫里阿岛的美丽便完全呈现出来，但是在你的船只从它旁边驶过时，你会发现它仍然重门深锁，把自己闭合为一堆人们无法接近的阴森可怖的巨石，没有人能闯入它那幽森的奥秘中去。

Even more alarmingly, its flow is diminishing at source.

更令人担忧的是它的源头水流正在逐渐减小。

Her foreshortened figure rushed away from him; the diminishing square of the roof seemed to be falling through the darkness.

她那因透视而缩小的身姿急速离他而去。房顶那越来越小的方形似乎落进了黑暗里。

What once seemed an abundant resource is diminishing before our eyes.

曾经看似取之尽的资源，如今正在我们眼前逐渐减少。

So, how can you make sure your to-do list isn't diminishing your motivation?

那么，如何确保你的会消减你的动力呢？

And ultimately, increasing the sample size can have diminishing returns on accuracy.

最终，增加样本量对准确性的回报会递减。

Death tolls continued to rise across Europe, but in almost all instances at diminishing rates.

欧洲各地的死亡人数继续上升，过总体情况是新增比例出现下降。

They have begun to ban or crimp imports themselves, abruptly diminishing a booming business.

并已经开始禁止或限制进口，这突然削弱了蓬勃发展的业务。

The protein follistatin, has an antagonist effect to myostatin, diminishing myostatin's muscle limiting effect.

卵泡抑素蛋白与肌抑素存在拮抗作用，它能降低肌抑素对肌肉的限制。

I'm very much afraid that you see the new arrangement as diminishing your own importance.

恐怕你认为新的体系会削减你的重要性。

Because you can only study so many hours in a day, longer hours yields diminishing returns.

因为你一天只能学习这么多小时，更长的时间会产生报酬递减。

Then Mrs. Yeobright saw a little figure wending its way between the scratching furze-bushes, and diminishing far up the valley—a pale-blue spot in a vast field of neutral brown, solitary and undefended except by the power of her own hope.

约布赖特太太目送着托玛茜小小的身影走在抓挠行人的荆棘丛中，她进了山谷，变得越来越小——成为灰蒙蒙一片褐色大地上一个淡蓝色的小点——显得那么孤零无助，仅仅靠她自己的希望支撑着。

Flattening the curve is focused on diminishing the total number of people that get sick and slows down the rate at which new people get sick, while raising the line helps to actually increase healthcare capacity.

拉平曲线主要靠减少患病总人数以及减缓病例新增速率；提高水平线主要是靠增强医疗系统的收治能力。

But scientists have found that climate change - including longer, hotter and drier fire seasons, diminishing snowpack and lengthening droughts - have already measurably worsened the size and scale of fires in the western United States.

但科学家们已经发现，气候变化——包括山火季节变长，变热，变干燥，积雪变少，干旱时间变长等——已经显著恶化了美国西部的火灾规模。

In the 1960s, a professor at Cornell named Frank Drake, excited by such whopping numbers, worked out a famous equation designed to calculate the chances of advanced life in the cosmos based on a series of diminishing probabilities.

20世纪60年代，康奈尔大学的一位名叫弗兰克·德雷克的教授为这么巨大的数字所振奋，根据一系列断缩小的可能性，想出了一个著名的方程式，旨在计算宇宙中存在高级生命的可能性。

The draft executive order that Trump is preparing acknowledges that only Congress can shut down the Department of Education, so directs the agency to begin diminishing its staff and functions, the Post reported, citing three people briefed on it.

《华盛顿邮报》报道称，特朗普正在准备的行政命令草案承认只有国会才能关闭教育部，因此指示该机构开始减少其员工和职能，消息来源为三位知情人士。

Behind these purchases often lies a healthy dose of FOMO, or " fear of missing out." Viewers get bombarded with coupons, deals and alerts of rapidly diminishing stock, enticing them to buy now -- before it's too late.

在这些购买行为的背后，往往是一种害怕错过的心理（fear of missing out）。观众们会收到大量的优惠券、特价商品和库存迅速减少的提醒，诱使他们立即购买——以免为时过晚。

He demonstrated that primary conditioners or rewards that are fundamental biological needs, you know, food, water, sex, etc, have a diminishing effect once a person reaches satiation or the biological limit of their needs.

他证明，初级调理或奖励是基本的生物需求，你知道的，食物、水、性等，一旦一个人达到饱和或其生物需求的极限，效果就会减弱。

But almost completely naked with no food or fresh water in a cold wet room with a rapidly diminishing supply of oxygen, his odds of survival were definitely very grim.

但他几乎一丝挂，没有食物，没有淡水，在一个又冷又湿的房间里，氧气供应也在迅速减少，他的生存几率肯定非常渺茫。