We learned in Section 287 that the strength of a current increases when the electromotive force increases, and diminishes when the electromotive force diminishes. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
Now Dalton's master had taught that the atoms of matter in a gas (elastic fluid) repel one another by a force increasing in proport ion as their distance diminishes. 李贝.西洋科学史.
The light diminishes in brightness much more rapidly than we realize, as the following simple experiment will show. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
But the intensity of the vibrations diminishes very rapidly with the distance; so that even with the aid of speaking-tubes and trumpets it is impossible to exceed somewhat narrow limits. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Mr. Bucket brings a chair and diminishes his shadow. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
The same quantity of money, besides, can not long remain in any country in which the value of the annual produce diminishes. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
In proportion as the resemblance decays, the probability diminishes; but still has some force as long as there remain any traces of the resemblance. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
When this distance diminishes, the comparison is less to our advantage; and consequently gives us less pleasure, and is even disagreeable. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
When the poles of a simple voltaic cell are connected by a wire, the current thus produced slowly diminishes in strength and, after a short time, becomes feeble. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
In the progress of improvement, rent, though it increases in proportion to the extent, diminishes in proportion to the produce of the land. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
And this is the reason why custom encreases all active habits, but diminishes passive, according to the observation of a late eminent philosopher. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
The time diminishes daily, and is usefully employed. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
The last form neither augments nor diminishes visible objects; the concave diminishes them, the convex increases them, but both show them blurred and indistinct. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
The demand for servants increases, while the number of those who offer to supply that demand diminishes. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
That of the manufacturing workmanship diminishes, perhaps, in all of them without exception. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
The cushion diminishes the force of the rolling balls and flying pins, permitting them to fall gently into the pit. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neither encreases nor diminishes. 戴维·休谟.人性论.