商务英语：今日热词——时常

缩小

(verb) To decline or become less gradually until little remains

例句

EXAMPLE: After great success in the early part of the year, the company's sales figures started to dwindle to less than a quarter of last year's total.

在年初取得巨大成功后，公司的销售数字开始逐步减小，最后降至不足去年的四分之一。

时常

Occasionally

EXAMPLE: The salesman visits his customers now and then to maintain his friendships with them and so they will buy from him consistently.

销售人员时常拜访客户，保持同他们的友谊，以便让他们一如既往地从他那里采购。