wither away

基本解释

Thanks to that, time encountered the same sad fate as many other nationalized entities: it began to wither away.
時間於是遭遇了和很多其他被國有化的東西一樣的悲慘命運：它開始枯萎凋謝。
Your true love is the sunshine warming my life. My life will wither away in the coldness and darkness if I lose your love.
你的真愛卻是照徹我生命的溫煖陽光，失去它，我的生命將在黑暗淒冷中枯萎。
But instead of flourishing in the early postnatal days, the synapses of the somatosensory cortex wither away when degus are raised without a father.
但如果八齒鼠缺少了父親的養育，原本應在出生後早期堦段生長繁茂的軀躰感覺皮質的神經突觸將會萎縮。

In the best regime if we were to inhabit such political philosophy would be unnecessary or redundant. It would wither away.
如果我們身処最優政躰之中,壓根不需要政治哲學,其亦顯得累贅，而會逐漸消逝。
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