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Thinning hair is hair that is slowly getting less thick — you still have hair, but there is less of it, so more scalp shows through. This is the gentle way to say it in English.
Thinning hair「thinning hair」 is hair that is slowly getting less thick是指頭髮慢慢變得沒那麼濃密 — you still have hair你頭髮還在, but there is less of it只是變少了, so more scalp shows through所以露出比較多頭皮。 This is the gentle way to say it in English這是英文裡比較委婉的說法。
'Going bald' is blunt and can someone; 'thinning' describes the same process without landing so hard, which is why you hear it from , in advertisements for shampoo, and from people talking carefully about themselves or a friend.
'Going bald'「going bald（禿頭）」 is blunt and can embarrass someone講得很直接，可能會讓人尷尬; 'thinning'「thinning」 describes the same process則是形容同樣的過程 without landing so hard但沒有那麼傷人, which is why you hear it所以你會聽到 from hairdressers, in advertisements for shampoo, and from people talking carefully about themselves or a friend美髮師這麼說、洗髮精廣告這麼說，還有大家講到自己或朋友時也會小心地這麼用。
It almost always sits right in front of the noun: thinning hair, a thinning patch, thinning on top. You would not usually say 'his hair is thinning' — actually you would, and often; both the before-the-noun use and the is-thinning use are normal here.
It幾乎 almost always sits right in front of the noun都直接放在名詞前面: thinning hair, a thinning patch, thinning on top像 thinning hair（稀疏的頭髮）、a thinning patch（一小片變稀疏的地方）、thinning on top（頭頂變稀疏）。 You would not usually say 'his hair is thinning'你可能會覺得不太會說「his hair is thinning」 — actually you would, and often其實你會，而且很常見; both the before-the-noun use and the is-thinning use are normal here放在名詞前面的用法，和「is thinning」的用法，在這裡都很正常。
Beyond hair, the same -ing form works for anything that is getting less dense: a thinning crowd as people go home, thinning ice at the end of winter, a thinning forest. And use thinning as a noun for the job of pulling out some young plants so the rest have room to grow.
Beyond hair除了頭髮之外, the same -ing form同樣這個 -ing 的形式 works for anything that is getting less dense也可以用在任何變得比較稀疏的東西上: a thinning crowd as people go home像大家陸續離開時越來越稀疏的人群, thinning ice at the end of winter冬末變薄變稀的冰, a thinning forest或逐漸稀疏的森林。 And gardeners而園丁 use thinning as a noun會把 thinning 當名詞用, for the job of pulling out some young plants指的是拔掉一些小苗的工作 so the rest have room to grow好讓剩下的植物有空間生長。
組成thin + -ing. Thin can be a verb as well as a describing word — to thin is to become less thick — and -ing turns it into the form that describes something in the middle of doing that. Note the doubled n before -ing, as in running and winning.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
thinningnoun
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agriculturebusinessforestryProcess of removing plants or parts of plants to facilitate the growth of other plants
- The trimming, pruning and thinning must be managed with care. Some need more thinning than others.
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agriculturebusinessforestryWood, leaves, or other plant parts removed during the process of thinning
- but with a suitable mixture of early and late maturing kinds, the young hickories, ashs and larches can be utilized as thinnings, at a profit. In estimating the value of the thinnings upon the basis of Prof. Sargent's estimate of the acreage yield of hoop poles from hickory plantations,
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The action or result of reducing thickness, density, or number
- It is highly likely that this thinning was not atrophic or pathological, but simply the thinning from stretching under the forces of labor, as Bandl and others explain it.
thinningadj
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Becoming less thick, dense, or numerous
- thinning hair
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。