n. 调光；变暗
v. 变暗（dim 的现在分词）
1.Many workers, meanwhile, face dimming prospects.
与此同时，许多工人也面临暗淡的前景。
2.But hope is dimming as time is running out.
但希望是作为调光的时间不多了。
3.Killing mechanism: atmospheric dimming, acid rain, crop die-off.
杀伤机制：大气能见度降低、酸雨、作物死亡。
4.A novel UHF electronic ballast with dimming feature is proposed in this paper.
本文提出了一种新型可调光的超高频电子镇流器。
5.It’s looking for the faint dimming of a star that occurs when an orbiting planet passes in front of it.
当绕着恒星运行的行星在恒星前方经过时，会在恒星表面留下微弱的阴影。开普勒正是寻找这样的阴影。
6.The final issue is the quality of the dimming waveform itself.
最后一个是调光波形本身的质量问题。
7.If that dimming occurs regularly, astronomers can assume it's due to an orbiting planet rather than, say, a passing asteroid.
如果变暗有规律的发生，天文学家则可以假设这是轨道固定的行星而不是路过的小行星造成的。
8.Fifteen years on, memories are dimming of a cold November night when the impossible happened.
15年过去了，关于15年前那个11月的寒冷夜晚的记忆已渐渐模糊。但就在那个晚上，不可思议的事真的发生了。
9.Forget the old idea that conserving energy is a form of self denial riding bicycles, dimming the lights, and taking fewer showers.
忘掉那些认为节约能源是一种自我否定的旧观念吧，如骑自行车、调暗灯、少洗澡。