Declension

(noun.) a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; 'the first declension in Latin'.

(noun.) the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages.

整理:斯特拉

• Portugal, however, is but a very small part of Europe, and the declension of Spain is not, perhaps, so great as is commonly imagined. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But the rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity, and fall with the declension of the society. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• To him our schools are also indebted for the method of teaching foreign languages b y declensions, conjugations, vocabularies, formal rhetoric and annotations. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

校对:拉里