receding
present participle ofrecede
| 单词 | receding |
| 释义 | receding present participle ofrecede recede verb[I] uk/rɪˈsiːd/us/rɪˈsiːd/tomovefurtheraway into thedistance, or tobecomelessclearor lessbright: As theboatpickedupspeed, thecoastlinerecededintothedistanceuntilfinallyitbecameinvisible. Thepainfulmemoriesgraduallyreceded in hermind. Becoming and making smaller or less
Examplesofrecedingreceding In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The lack of sustained growth in expenditure on this service is perhaps unsurprising, given therecedingthreat of epidemics. From theCambridge English Corpus A related problem concerns the shape of arecedingmeniscus in a channel. From theCambridge English Corpus The future is anticipated as a becoming, while the past is a going or arecedingto be stored in the memory. From theCambridge English Corpus Blocks with water extraction more than recharge indicaterecedingwater table zones. From theCambridge English Corpus Figure 4 gives an overview of therecedinghorizon planner. From theCambridge English Corpus Then, finally, the offending march returns to undermine whatever credibility the apotheosis retained, and the work ends with the marchrecedinginto the distance. From theCambridge English Corpus They could say which object was "higher or lower," "approaching orreceding," and whether a given hemifield contained one or two moving objects. From theCambridge English Corpus The subjects were asked to report the arrangement of the display, and nearly all reported seeing a flatrecedingplane (although somewhat tilted upward). From theCambridge English Corpus As they were later left emerged byrecedingtides at night, they produced mucus trails containing perhaps thousands of cercariae. From theCambridge English Corpus At the same time, the slowed-down cricket sounds fade slightly,recedingto the background of the piece. From theCambridge English Corpus Then,recedinghorizon planner is a viable method for real-time trajectory generation. From theCambridge English Corpus Population has beenrecedingsince the 1970s and this is expected to continue into the next millennium. From theCambridge English Corpus How should this evidence of therecedingsignificance of the jobber be interpreted? From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, the completely delexicalized and outgoing very collocates widely, even in those age groups where it isreceding, and is favoured with non-emotional adjectives. From theCambridge English Corpus Coastal salt production was also aided byrecedingglobal sea levels through the ninth century that remained low until the sixteenth century. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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