wax and wane

消长风雨飘摇消长不定衰败

wax and wane 的定义

  1. Increase and decrease, as in size, number, strength, or intensity, as in Enrollments in these programs wax and wane from year to year. This expression alludes to the phases of the moon, with its periodic changes in size. It was first recorded in the 1300s.

wax and wane 近义词

wax and wane

等同于 ups and downs

更多wax and wane例句

  1. As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
  2. As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
  3. Today, liberal Protestantism is on the wane, and optimistic postmillennialism along with it.
  4. Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
  5. Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.
  6. Her eldest daughter married in America, and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.
  7. At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.
  8. She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
  9. Primo de Rivera, who believed the rebellion to be fast on the wane, shipped back to Spain 7,000 troops.
  10. Two many-branched candelabra, holding wax lights, brilliantly illuminate the game.