decline

• Pen laughed and declined to tell her what the play was about .
  潘笑了笑，不肯告诉她演的什么戏。
• Prices begin to decline .
  物价开始下降。
• Most experts forecast a mild decline in housing starts .
  大多数专家预计住房建筑的开工率将有所下降。
• The prices are declining .
  价格下降。
• His friends begin to avoid him and his business declines .
  朋友们开始回避他，他的生意也渐渐清淡了。
• The prices declined .
  价钱降下来了。
• Joe's hearing started declining almost the moment he was born .
  乔的听觉几乎从他一出生就开始减退了。
• The efficiency of reproduction may decline as a result of seasons .
  繁殖效率可能受季节的影响而下降。
• Nixon's attention spun for foreign policy was also declining .
  尼克松花在外交政策上的精力也日益减少。
• I dare say it would have been more seemly to decline his proposal .
  我知道更合体的作法是拒绝他的邀请。