单词	diminished
释义	diminished /dɪˈmɪnɪʃt / adjective 1Made smaller or less: a diminished role for local government... A crtc in name only gives us the illusion of regulation and protection, but in reality, it has a very diminished and marginal role. The problem is that such an approach requires national politicians to deny themselves power and accept a diminished role for the central state, their state. The new direction was toward shifting responsibility away from the federal government, which indicated a diminished civil works role for the Corps of Engineers. 1.1 [predicative] Made to seem less impressive or valuable: she felt diminished by the report... But our relationship seemed diminished, lessened by the events that had transpired during her disappearance. The politics of solidarity they ostensibly represent seem to me to be correspondingly diminished. On the other is one of the Third World's true bright spots, somewhat diminished by the comic-opera nationalism of its democratically elected president. 2 [attributive] Music Denoting or containing an interval which is one semitone less than the corresponding minor or perfect interval: a diminished fifth... And several times in the book a diminished fifth rather than an augmented fourth is called a tritone. Arpeggios of diminished 7ths rushing up and down the keyboard are the main - indeed the only - motive in this bravura piece. ‘Ok,’ I play it in its Major, minor, Augmented and diminished forms then look up at him again.
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