英语释义

• lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness;

  "the old woman's shriveled skin"

  "he looked shriveled and ill"

  "a shrunken old man"

  "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie

  "he did well despite his withered arm"

  "a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair"

• reduced in size by being drawn together;

  "the shrunken dress was entirely too tight to wear"

• reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity;

  "our shriveled receipts during the storm"

  "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"

  "the dollar's shrunken buying power"

片语

contractible缩小的；[物] 可收缩的

shrunken test缩水测试

truncated缩短（truncate的过去分词）；截去…的顶端

shrunken tongue舌瘦瘪

shrunken skin皮肤皱缩

Shrunken HeadShrunken head from the [[Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford]]

sunken shrunken凹瘪

shrunken grain[粮食]

Shrunken HeadsShrunken Heads is a 1994 English language film directed by Richard Elfman and written by Matthew Bright. It is Full Moon Entertainment's first theatrical feature, and the last film in which Julius Harris appeared.

cutdown缩小的

shrunken raster皱缩光栅

Shrunken phase颈缩阶段

英汉例句

• 「the larger cause of failure is almost unmentionable: shrunken student motivation, 」 wrote samuelson.

  萨缪尔森写道：“失败的一个更大原因几乎很难说出口：学生缺乏动力。

• public-sector pensions are far too generous, in comparison with shrunken private-sector ones.

  与养老保险缩水的私营部门相比，公有部门养老保险也远为优厚。

• even the expanded screen could deliver only a shrunken facsimile.

  即使扩展显示也只能看到一个和缩小传真差不多的效果。

• but the absence of the first three speaks to a shrunken american presence.

  不过前面三个词的缺席道出了美国亮相的减弱。

• the visible costs of the financial crisis are well known: bank recapitalisations, stimulus spending and shrunken tax revenues.

  金融危机的显性支出，如银行资本重构的花费，刺激经济的支出和税收下降已经被人们所熟知。

• areva may succeed only in winning a higher share of a shrunken market for reactors, as governments delay or stop new-build programmes.

  随着政府推迟或停止新的建造计划，阿海珐可能只是在不断缩小的反应堆市场中获得较大份额方面取得成功。

• southern countries might restore their own currencies, leaving a northern group of germany, austria, finland, the netherlands and possibly france in a shrunken eurozone.

  至于如何分家则尚未可知，南欧国家或许会恢复本国的货币，留下北方的德国、奥地利、芬兰、荷兰或许还有法国，组成一个缩水版的欧元区；

• shrunken limbs and missing digits are likely due to changes in the hox genes, which determine the development of lower body segments.

  缩小的肢体和消失的趾头很可能是由于基因的变化而造成的，这决定了下肢的演化过程。

• trevor-roper’s failure to write a great work was not only a verdict on his own psychology, it was a verdict on the shrunken state of post-war britain.

  特雷弗-罗珀未能写出一部伟大的着作，这不仅是对其个人心理的一种裁定，也是对战后英国萎靡状态的一种裁定。

• worst of all, the balance-sheet has a whiff of detroit’s carmakers: a shrunken business supporting gigantic welfare obligations.

  最糟糕的是，资产负债表上似乎吹来了底特律汽车制造商的味道：萎缩的业务量不足以支持巨额福利支出。

• workers thrown out of a shrunken industry like finance or construction may take years to retrain for another.

  从萎缩行业（金融或建筑业）失业了的员工，可能要花上很多年接受重新培训，进入另一个行业。

• since april 30, more than 700 ships have been stranded in the shrunken waterway in huzhou, xinhua news agency reported.

  据新华社报道，自四月30号，已有超过700条船搁浅在湖州缩拢的河道。

• you could get online using only a smartphone, but you’ll pay at least $80 a month and you’ll have to view the internet through a shrunken keyhole of a screen.

  你可以就用智能手机上网，不过你少说一个月得付80美元，而且你还只能通过锁孔般大小的屏幕浏览互联网。

• dutch study last year of the western himalayas reckoned that shrunken glaciers will cut the flow of the indus by some 8% by mid-century.

  去年荷兰公布的一份关于喜玛拉希西面区域的研究报告预测，到本世纪中叶，冰川萎缩会使印度河水减少8%。

• ge reckons that a shrunken finance operation can achieve a 15% return on investment. however, this may be wishful thinking.

  ge声称缩减金融运营将使投资回报率达到15%，但这仅仅只是一个美好的设想罢了。

• public companies may have had their confidence shaken in the past few years and their territory shrunken a little.

  公众企业在过去的几年里可能信心受挫，市场占有率下降。

• whereas the established church of england is still trying to reconcile inherited privilege with a shrunken flock, their catholic compatriots have had their muscles toned by some hard battles.

  当英格兰的国教还在试图调和教会的继承特权与日益萎缩的信众间的矛盾时，它的天主教同胞已经经受了几场硬仗，变得筋骨强健了。

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