contraction
美 [kənˈtrækʃ(ə)n]
英 [kən'trækʃ(ə)n] 
- n.收缩;挛缩;缩小;(尤指分娩时的)子宫收缩
- 网络缩写;缩短;紧缩
词形变化
复数:contractions 反义词
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英汉双解
1. | [u] 收缩;缩小the process of becoming smaller |
| the expansion and contraction of the metal 金属的膨胀与收缩 |
| The sudden contraction of the markets left them with a lot of unwanted stock. 股票市场骤然收缩,让他们剩下了许多无人要的股票。 |
2. | [c][u] (肌肉的)收缩,挛缩;(尤指分娩时的)子宫收缩a sudden and painful contracting of muscles, especially of the muscles around a woman's womb , that happens when she is giving birth to a child |
| The contractions started coming every five minutes. 子宫开始每隔五分钟收缩一次。 |
3. | [c] 词的缩约形式a short form of a word |
| ‘He's’ may be a contraction of ‘he is’ or ‘he has’. he's 可以是 he is 或 he has 的缩约形式。 |
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'How much of a contraction in demand will we have because if people want to have something they'll have to save money before they buy? '
如果因为人们需要攒钱才能购买他们想要的东西,我们的需求将面临多大的萎缩呢?
This contraction compressed the surface and thrust some sections of crust over others, creating long curving cliffs like the one shown here.
收缩挤压着表层使得部分地壳压在其余部分形成了这样长长而弯曲的悬崖。
This showed a contraction in the bank's purchasing managers' index, with it falling below 50 to its lowest level in a year.
这说明,HSBC银行的采购经理指数出现收缩,降至50以下,达到一年中的最低点。
As for the beef supply, she adds that "cattle herds are in contraction worldwide and with feed prices like this, don't expect expansion" .
至于牛肉供应,她补充表示:“世界各地的生牛存栏数量都在减少,像这样的饲料价格,就别指望数量会增加了。”
As the body is trying to generate it's own heat you will develop uncontrolled muscle contraction.
当身体努力产生热量时,你会感到一种无法控制的肌肉收缩。
But, ISI also notes, every dollar of stimulus extended now will add a dollar to the extent of the fiscal contraction felt a year later.
但同时ISI指出,未来一年对美元的刺激加深将会增加财政紧缩的程度。
The conveyer device is structurally characterized by also comprising a contraction and expansion pipe mixer and an air compressor air duct.
其结构特点是,它还包括缩扩管混合器和空压机输气管。
As the pace of the contraction over the last six months is unparalleled since the war, some stabilisation is not surprising.
由于过去6个月的萎缩速度为二战以来前所未有,如今出现某些企稳迹象并不奇怪。
Many forecasters believe the British economy is already in a contraction that will last at least through the end of this year.
许多预测者认为,英国经济已经陷入紧缩,并至少会持续到今年年底。
The second figure represents the pressure of the heart as it expands and fills with blood, while waiting for the next contraction.
第二个数字代表了心脏的压力,因为它的扩展和血液填充,而等待下一次收缩。
A gentle contraction from here, as policymakers seem to be indicating, would take years to bring M2 down to its long-run average.
若从这一水平温和收缩(这是政策制定者似乎在暗示的),那将需要多年时间才能使M2降至长期平均水平。
And this picture is often treated as evidence that trade contraction was somehow driving the slump.
这张图经常被视作贸易萎缩导致经济跳水的证据。
The alternating contraction and relaxation acts as a purification pump that carries nourishment in and waste products out of the muscles.
反复的紧缩和放松可以把营养物带进肌肉并同时把废物移出肌肉。
Here's what happened: the Fed decided to squeeze inflation out of the system through a monetary contraction.
收场过程是这样的:美联储决定,通过货币紧缩,从经济体系中,把通胀挤出去。
The most damaging "solution" would be if imports fall as a result of a contraction in consumption, possibly due to recession.
如果美国的进口因消费收缩而回落,而消费收缩源自于经济衰退,那将是一个最具破坏性的“解决方案”。
Investors are hungry to see data showing improvement in the global economy, not just a slowing contraction.
投资者们渴望看到的是全球经济改善的数据,而不只是放缓的经济萎缩。
John Ryding and Conrad DeQuadros at RDQ Economics said the surveys showed "the global nature of the economic contraction" .
RDQEconomics的约翰·莱丁(JohnRyding)和康拉德·德卡德罗斯(ConradDeQuadros)表示,上述调查显示出“经济紧缩的全球性”。
All this suggested that America was more likely to endure a gradual, even gentle, slowing of economic growth than a sharp contraction.
所有这一切都表明,美国更可能经历逐步的、甚至是和缓的、减速的经济增长,而非一场剧烈紧缩。
The question is, rather, how much deeper and longer this recession or "contraction" might become.
正确的问题应该是,此次衰退或“经济收缩”还会走多远,以及持续多久。
The UK's fiscal contraction may be the least bad policy, given the risks. We do not know. Reasonable people may.
鉴于各种风险,英国的财政紧缩也许是最不糟糕的政策。我们并不知道。理智的人也许同时也对这一受到重创的经济的健康感到担忧。
He had a sudden sense of alarm, a cold contraction in his stomach.
他突然感到一阵惊恐,胃都抽搐起来。
Heyward talked for another thirty minutes on his theme of expanded industrial lending against a contraction in community commitments.
海沃德就扩大工业贷款同时削减社会义务的题目又讲了30分钟。
The sudden contraction of the markets left them with a lot of unwanted stock.
股票市场骤然收缩,让他们剩下了许多无人要的股票。
The opening displacement V is equal to the thickness contraction W.
张开位移V等于厚度的收缩量W。
The criterion for gravitational contraction set by Equations (3. 4) is significantly weaker for more massive clouds.
由(3.4)式建立的引力收缩判据,对质量较大的云是很牵强的。
Eventually the star's contraction slows down.
最后,恒星的收缩终于慢了下来。
The view that phosphocreatine was the direct source of energy for muscular contraction lasted only a few years.
认为磷酸肌酸作为肌肉收缩直接能源的观点,流行了不过数年。
This may prove to be enough to stave off a major economic contraction, but government measures alone will not rekindle high growth rates.
这或许足够避免一次重大的经济收缩,但单凭政府一己之力无法重燃经济的高速增长。
The course of Christianity in the first millennium was one of both expansion and contraction.
基督教第一个千年的历程是扩张和收缩的过程。
The toxin blocks the ability of acetylcholine, one of the body's chemical neurotransmitters, to control muscle contraction.
这些毒素能阻塞乙酰胆碱(身体内的一种化学神经递质,能够控制肌肉反馈)的活动。
On its definition of deficit-cutting, the fund finds that fiscal contraction tends to reduce GDP and increase unemployment.
按其对削减赤字的定义,货币组织发现财政紧缩易于减少GDP及增加失业率。
Viscose yarn textile city a week qianqing material market contraction in sales prices fall, a few businesses appear poor.
一周轻纺城钱清原料市场粘胶纱销售量缩价跌,少数商家出现滞销。
Matsuzaswa concluded from his tests that there is a simple remedy to the contraction normally associated with age-using of the head.
从实验中松泽得出结论,对于大脑萎缩有种简单的弥补措施,它一般与习惯性动脑筋有关。
"GDP is now forecast to stagnate around the turn of this year, with some member states, in fact, experiencing a contraction, " said Rehn.
瑞恩说:“根据这项预估,今年年底至明年年初的时候,GDP的增长将处于停滞阶段,而实际上一些成员国还将经历经济收缩。”
The second is to be scared of success, which leads to "resolute contraction" and Right deviationist mistakes. That's just AS bad.
胜利吓昏了头脑,来一个“坚决收缩”,犯出右的错误,这也不好。
Maximal voluntary contraction and peak torque increased significantly in the T group but did not change in the P group.
组中最大自愿收缩和最大扭矩显著增加,而P组没有改变。
A stronger contraction is possible, owing to lower export prices and slumping domestic and international demand.
由于出口价格更低以及国内国际需求的不断下滑,经济更大程度的收缩也是可能的。
These verbs mean to exhibit recurrent rhythmical movements of or like those involved in the periodic expansion and contraction of the heart.
这些动词的意思是表现类似心脏周期性扩张和收缩的重复有节奏的运动。
Second, housing construction has turned after three and a half years of contraction.
其次,住宅建设在经历三年半的萎缩后,已止跌回升。
That is to say the "crying sound" is an exact result of this expansion-contraction process.
这也就是说,岩石的“哭声”正是由这种膨胀和收缩的过程产生的。
Dynamic loading of flange bolts allows expansion and contraction movement in and around the joint while maintaining a seal.
耳轮缘螺栓动态装货允许扩展和收缩运动在和在联接附近,当维护封印时。
Runs on a built-in battery - an electrical impulse within the heart initiates each contraction.
由“内置电池”供能——心脏内部的电脉冲信号能激活每一次肌肉收缩。
Gone is the fantasy that there would be a mild economic contraction this year, followed by a return to steady growth.
人们放弃了今年希腊经济温和收缩,随后将恢复稳定增长的幻想。
contraction is two words put together and made into a shorter word with the same meaning.
缩写式就是将两个词组合起来形成一个更短的具有相同意义的词。
However, various measures of economic activity suggest that an outright contraction in the Chinese economy is now at least thinkable.
可是,经济活动的各方面指标表明,中国经济出现绝对值的收缩如今至少是可以想象的。
First, the word internet (also internetwork) is simply a contraction of the phrase interconnected network.
第一,简单地说互联网这个词就是“相互连接的网络”的缩写。