英语释义

• the act of becoming less

• process or result of becoming less or smaller;

  "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage"

片语

shrinking on乘其热胀时把...套上；缩紧

Shrinking CitiesShrinking cities are dense cities that have experienced notable population los Emigration (migration from a place) is a common reason for city shrinkage.

shrinking concrete不收缩混凝土

shrinking percentage收缩率；收缩百分比

Shrinking Phase缩减阶段

shrinking machine收缩机

salt shrinking盐缩

Shrinking Solution缩身药剂

Shrinking Man缩水情人

shrinking violet羞怯的人；畏首畏尾的人

英汉例句

• while this loss of stature is attributed partially to shrinking bones and the other physiological effects of aging, some researchers say this is no coincidence at all.

  虽然身高减少的部分原因是衰老所产生的骨骼收缩以及其他生理现象，但一些研究人员说这绝非巧合。

• a shrinking moon overturns the view that our natural satellite is a cold lump of rock and suggests it might still have a warm core and be geologically active.

  萎缩的月球推翻了我们天然的卫星是一个寒冷的大石块的观点，并表明它仍有一个温热的内核而且还有地质活动。

• any shrinking of this premium may suggest markets have become more liquid.

  任何溢价的收缩可能意味着市场更具有流动性。

• new sources of growth, he insists, have to be found by drastically (and painfully) shrinking the state.

  他坚持认为新的增长源必须通过大幅（痛苦地）缩减政府开支来实现。

• but the politics of shrinking dirty industries in rich countries could well mean that such taxes will be imposed anyway.

  但是在富裕国家中实施收缩污染工业的政策就是意味着这样的税收很有可能会执行。

• the compromise of retaining but shrinking the nuclear arsenal has recently kept peace in the party; britain has 50% less warheads than it did in 1997.

  保留的折衷办法就是缩减核武器库, 这也带来了最近工党内部的和睦.相比1997年,英国的核弹头数量减少了50%.

• it has been engulfed, like the rest of the world, by recession and shrinking global trade.

  它已经像世界其他国家一样被经济衰退和全球贸易萎缩所吞没。

• the role of the intellectual may be shrinking into that of the micro-blogger or street organizer.

  知识分子的地位可能被缩小到像是一个微博作家或是街头组织者。

• he invariably imagines positively that he can win in every hurdle race, never shrinking in front of other experienced players. that's why he works wonders again and again.

  他总是积极地想象自己每场比赛都能胜出，面对其他经验丰富的选手时从不退缩，因此他一次又一次地创造了奇迹。

• the survey showed manufacturing shrinking from the month before (see chart 2), adding to the gloom on world markets.

  调查显示,自上月起，制造业萎缩 (见图表2),使世界市场雪上加霜。

• if they do, and they’re successful, they’ll have to reckon with the fact that a shrinking industry will generate even more unemployment.

  如果他们去做，成功了，他们又不得不面临一个萎缩中的行业将产生更多的失业人员这个事实。

• these changes result in a smaller number of graduates, which in turn results in a shrinking skilled workforce.

  这些变化会导致毕业生的数量很少，从而反过来导致技术型劳动力数量的萎缩。

• but in the meantime, the children of america have gotten heavier, i have diagnosed type 2 diabetes in too many of my patients, and i haven’t done any major shrinking myself.

  但是在此期间，美国孩子变得更加沉重，在我的很多病人中都诊断出2型糖尿病，并且我没有做出任何有效措施来缩小自己（体型）。

• the economy stopped shrinking a year ago, but america’s unemployment problem is as big as ever.

  一年前，美国的经济已经停止收缩，但是美国失业问题仍然像以前一样严峻。

• partly thanks to such failings, the economy has tanked, with gdp shrinking in 2009 by more than in any other big european country.

  部分由于这些失败，使得乌克兰经济受到重挫，2009年gdp缩水程度高于其他任何一个欧洲大国。

• some of the problems of shrinking cities are so fundamental that there is no quick fix.

  这些萎缩城市的一些问题是那么地基础以至于不能够很快地得到解决。

• if you do not have sufficient unallocated disk space, you can create space by shrinking or deleting some existing volumes.

  如果没有足够的未分配空间，可以通过缩小或删除现有分区来创建这部分空间。

相似词

compress压缩，压紧；精简

condense使浓缩；使压缩

constrict压缩；束紧

contract收缩，缩短；感染；订约；订（婚）；负（债）；结交

相反词

balloon气球；热气球；球形大酒杯；对白圆圈；（非正式）蠢人；分期付款中最后一笔数目特大的还款；（非正式）大麻烦

expand发展；张开，展开

snowball向…掷雪球；使滚雪球般增大

swell凸起处，隆起处；逐渐增长；感情高涨；浪涌；音量调节器；（非正式）名流