1. Sometimes, to people, it sounds like this is a diminished role for teachers. 有时对人们来说，这听起来像是教师的角色被削弱了。
2. However, at a time of financial crisis, funding diminished and little changed. 然而，在金融危机时期，资金减少，几乎没有变化。
3. As a result, the pressure to build new water infrastructures has diminished over the past two decades. 因此，在过去的二十年里，修建新的水利基础设施的压力已经减少了。
4. These scholars argue that even in the late nineteenth century, with the government's role in the economy considerably diminished, laissez-faire had not triumphed completely. 这些学者认为，即使在十九世纪后期，随着政府在经济中的作用大大减弱，自由放任政策也没有完全取得胜利。
5. During the dry periods that are common phenomena along the desert margins, the pressure on the land is often far in excess of its diminished capacity, and desertification results. 在沙漠边缘地区常有的旱季，土地所受的压力往往远超其被削弱的承受能力，沙漠化因此发生。
