If next year「s projection of a 2.5% slump is right, Greece」s economy will have shrunk by a frightening 14% over five years.
如果关于明年2.5%的衰退预测正确的话,五年来,希腊的经济令人目瞪口张的缩水了14%。
As those unknown territories shrunk on maps, a record was left of the limits of western man「s world.
那些未知地域在地图上都缩小了,西方人所到达的世界边缘的档案被遗忘了。
In most of the world, however, familysize has shrunk dramatically.
然而,在世界大多数地区,家庭规模在大幅度缩小。
Likewise, one might argue that without big tax cuts to prop up consumer spending, America」s deficit would have shrunk further.
同样,有人或许声称,没有大幅减税来促进消费,美国的赤字将会进一步缩水。
Shown here in images taken from space between 1973 and 2009, slowly but surely the Aral - in fact a salt water lake - has shrunk from being the size of Ireland to a cluster of contaminated ponds.
这里呈现的拍摄于1973年至2009年间的卫星图像显示,咸海——实际上是一个咸水湖——已经缓慢但真真切切地从相当于爱尔兰国土面积的大小萎缩成了一个受污染的池塘群落。
Time and again, the same glaciers have shrunk drastically in every direction, often losing hundreds of feet in height.
多幅照片显示,同样的冰川从各个方向明显缩小,高度往往下降数百英尺之多。
In the 1966 film 「Fantastic Voyage」, a submarine carrying a team of scientists is shrunk to the size of a microbe and injected into a dying man.
在1966年的电影「奇异之旅」中,一个载着一队科学家的潜水艇被缩小到微生物大小并被注射进一个快要死去的人体内。
Several weeks after the injection, tumors in about half of the patients seemed to stop growing, and shrunk in one patient.
在接受注射的几星期后,近半数患者的肿瘤似乎己停止生长,其中一位出现萎缩。
But last week, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development downgraded its growth estimates for the euro area and the Greek economy has shrunk this year.
但是,总部设在巴黎的经济合作与发展组织上星期下调了欧元区的经济增长预期,而希腊经济今年已经收缩。
As chips have shrunk over the years, engineers have struggled with ways of dissipating the heat they create.
因为芯片会在多年以后收缩,工程师们努力驱散他们产生的热量。
Cash on hand had shrunk to a point where a little cash we had was kind of kept in international markets that we couldn「t access it.
我们手头的现金,也极度缩水,最坏时我们仅存国际市场上的一丁点现金,而我们还没法动用它。
This week Japan said its economy had shrunk for the second quarter running.
本周日本表示其经济已经连续第二个季度萎缩。
You have shrunk my pants!
你把我的裤子洗缩水了!
Although the gap between men」s and women's earnings has shrunk for those at all income levels, it remains far bigger among the poorest tenth than in any other group (see chart).
尽管各个收入阶层中男人和女人收入的差距已经缩小,然而有十分之一贫穷妇女要远远低于在其他任何阶层的男人(看图)。
Passage may have been easier in the last four summers than in preceding decades, as the Arctic ice has shrunk to a smaller size than at any time in the satellite record.
因为北极冰雪的范围已经萎缩到了比卫星记载的任何时刻都要小一些,所以在过去的四个夏天里,在这条通道里漫游可能比以前几十年都要容易了。