less and less

LESSused to say that a quality, situation etc gradually decreases 越来越少；越来越小 OPP more and more

As the years went by, he seemed to care less and less about his reputation.

一年年过去，他好像越来越不在乎自己的名声。

5 Smoking in the workplace is becoming less and less acceptable.

在工作场所抽烟越来越不被接受了。

n Smoking is becoming less and less acceptable.

Examples from the Corpus

less and less• The fighting has become less and less frequent.• Staff were separated less and less from pupils; they used the same library and the same resource centres.• They began spending less and less time with each other.• As the war progressed, this position be-came less and less tenable and was eventually discarded.• Changes over the course of 250 years meant that realities accorded less and less with formal appearances and official regulations.• However, they are less and less willing either to hide or to lead lives of celibacy.• It is merely that there is less and less justification for her position.• It turned out not to be much-and, as it happened, he needed less and less as time went on.• Now I seem to care less and less.• She liked the mail-order concept, saying that working women have less and less time to shop at stores.

→ less and less at less1(2)

单词	less and less
释义	less and less less and less LESSused to say that a quality, situation etc gradually decreases 越来越少；越来越小 OPP more and more As the years went by, he seemed to care less and less about his reputation. 一年年过去，他好像越来越不在乎自己的名声。 5 Smoking in the workplace is becoming less and less acceptable. 在工作场所抽烟越来越不被接受了。 n Smoking is becoming less and less acceptable. Examples from the Corpus less and less• The fighting has become less and less frequent.• Staff were separated less and less from pupils; they used the same library and the same resource centres.• They began spending less and less time with each other.• As the war progressed, this position be-came less and less tenable and was eventually discarded.• Changes over the course of 250 years meant that realities accorded less and less with formal appearances and official regulations.• However, they are less and less willing either to hide or to lead lives of celibacy.• It is merely that there is less and less justification for her position.• It turned out not to be much-and, as it happened, he needed less and less as time went on.• Now I seem to care less and less.• She liked the mail-order concept, saying that working women have less and less time to shop at stores. → less and less at less1(2)
随便看	of five years' standing off key off-key offkey off-kilter off kilter offkilter off licence off-licence offlicence off-licences off-license off-limits off limits off limits offlimits offline offlined offlines offlining offload offloaded offload emotions offloading offload problems