shrinking
美 [ʃrɪŋkɪŋ]
英 [ʃrɪŋkɪŋ] 
- v.收缩;减少;退缩;畏缩
- n.精神病学家;心理学家
- 网络皱缩;缩短;缩小的
同义词
英汉双解
1. | [i][t] ~ (sth) (使)缩水,收缩,缩小,皱缩to become smaller, especially when washed in water that is too hot; to make clothes, cloth, etc. smaller in this way |
| My sweater shrank in the wash. 我的毛衣缩水了。 |
2. | [i][t] (使)缩小,收缩,减少to become or to make sth smaller in size or amount |
| The tumour had shrunk to the size of a pea. 肿瘤已缩小到豌豆大小。 |
| The market for their products is shrinking. 市场对他们产品的需求在减少。 |
| There was a movie called ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’. 有部电影名叫《亲爱的,我把孩子缩小了》。 |
| Television in a sense has shrunk the world. 从某种意义上说,电视把世界缩小了。 |
3. | [i] + adv./prep. 退缩;畏缩to move back or away from sth because you are frightened or shocked |
| He shrank back against the wall as he heard them approaching. 听见他们朝这边来,他退到墙根。 |
1. | 精神病学家;心理学家a psychiatrist or psychologist |
习惯用语
a shrinking violet
(指羞怯的人)a way of describing a very shy person
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例句
As an expected increase in the cost of raw materials looms for late summer, consumers are beginning to encounter shrinking food packages.
从去年夏天以来,由于原料成本意料之中的上升,消费者们开始买到包装缩水的食品。
But Serbia has one of the oldest populations in Europe and a low fertility rate, so the population is shrinking by 30, 000 a year.
但是塞尔维亚有着欧洲老年人口最多和低出生率,所以人口每年缩小3万人。
Losses on the toxic loans LBG inherited in that deal have been shrinking at a much faster rate of late than the bank had anticipated.
在比银行预期下降更快的最近的利率下,获得一些不良的资产,这才是亏损的原因所在。
The only optimum design scheme was the combination form of full breadth weir and downside the shrinking weir.
通过分析比较,确定上部全幅堰与下部侧收缩堰相结合的方式是废水测流堰槽的最佳设计方案。
Antarctic sea ice, for instance, does not seem to be shrinking, probably because increased melting is balanced by more snow.
例如,南极洲洋面上的冰似乎没有减少,可能是由于加速融化与降雪增多之间达成了平衡。
The 'bulge' at the Equator had been shrinking by less than a millimetre a year, according to National Geographic.
美国国家地理学会的数据显示,赤道每年都在以不到一毫米的速度“萎缩”。
But with all the turmoil in the economy, the product almost certainly would be shrinking if it were not restricted to cash transactions.
但是,鉴于经济目前的混乱局面,如果GDP的核算范围不局限于现金交易的话,几乎可以肯定地说,国内生产总值正在萎缩之中。
He said the number of tanker vehicles hauling fuel has dropped on a shrinking demand for petroleum.
他说,随着石油需求不断下滑,运输燃油的油罐车数量减少。
And, in a time of shrinking budgets, turf battles between the fusion centers and federal law enforcement are a certainty.
并且,在预算收缩的时期,必须掩盖联合中心与联邦执法部门之间争夺资金的斗争。
The consequences of that would be all the more threatening against a background of already shrinking output and trade flows.
在产出和贸易流已在收缩的背景下,那样的后果威胁性只会更大。
As for next year's trend of exports, not to be grim To open up emerging markets may be ripe to make up for shrinking market impact.
至于明年的出口走势,亦未许乐观,开拓新兴市场则可弥补成熟市场萎缩带来的影响。
"It sounded As if you were praying, " she said bravely, but she felt herself inside to be withering and shrinking.
“听起来你好像在作祷告呢,”她鼓起勇气说,心经却不禁世了气,感到难受。
All this could reduce productivity growth at a time when labour forces in these countries will be growing more slowly or even shrinking.
当这些国家的劳动力增速进一步放缓甚至出现负增长的时候,以上这些因素将会成为生产力发展的桎梏。
Mr Schwarzenegger wanted to eliminate entire programmes wholesale, but now appears ready to settle for shrinking them.
施瓦辛格原本想取消整个医疗保障计划,但目前打算缩小范围。
The newest satellite techniques and field observations allow us to see that the volume of ice is shrinking much faster than its area today.
最新的卫星技术和实地观察让我们看到,现在冰体积萎缩速度远远超过其面积。
But one must be blind in order not to see that oceans no longer belong to the West, while land under its domination keeps shrinking.
只有瞎了的人才不会看见那些海洋已经不属于西方,而受西方支配的土地正在缩水。
He said the government needed to seek solutions for swelling urban populations and shrinking resources.
他说,政府必须找到可行的办法来解决城市人口不断增加和资源不断减少的问题。
Sometimes he made an effort, coaxing her to walk with baby steps to exercise her shrinking muscles.
有时他设法哄劝她像小孩学步一样走路,这样可以锻炼她萎缩的肌肉。
Mr Obama says that he refuses to leave seniors "at the mercy of the insurance industry, with a shrinking benefit to pay for rising costs" .
奥巴马先生说,他决不让老年人们“任凭保险公司摆布,要支付的医疗费在增长,而保险金却在缩水”。
Record migration into a fast-shrinking job market have been a charged issue in recent years.
创纪录数量的移民涌入一个快速收缩的就业市场,近年来一直是一个引发争议的问题。
In Europe, with its increasing numbers of elderly and a shrinking labour force, every notch upwards in unemployment spells further misery.
在欧洲,随着老年人数量的上升和劳动力人口的下滑,失业率每上升一点都意味着更多不幸。
Let me go to bed, then, ' answered the boy, shrinking from Catherine's salute; and he put his fingers to his eyes to remove incipient tears.
“那就让我上床睡觉,”那个男孩子回答,避开凯瑟琳的招呼,退缩着;又用他的手指抹掉开始流出的眼泪。
But a victory over Sony and Microsoft in a shrinking market, he says, would not be a victory at all.
但在一个萎缩的市场上取得超越SONY和微软的胜利并非是根本的胜利。
If your annual loss was shrinking year after year, then you would be probably be able to come out of it, like Amazon did.
如果您的年度亏损逐年萎缩,那么你可能会像亚马逊能够走出有这样做。
Japanese manufacturers had been focused on cutting production and exports as inventories piled up in response to shrinking demand.
由于需求不断萎缩,库存大量积压,日本制造商一直把重点放在减少产量和出口上。
That the world remains so dollar-centric, given America's shrinking share of world output, is something of an anomaly.
如今美国在全球经济的份额越来越少,但美元还占着这样中心的地位,这是不正常的。
He seemed to have no idea of shrinking from it, and set forward at last most punctually with his eldest daughter in his own carriage .
他们似乎没有畏缩的意思。他同他的大小姐共坐一辆马车终于按时出发了。
Science has developed no cure for envy, so our wealth boosts our happiness only briefly while shrinking that of our neighbors.
科学也尚未研制出治疗嫉妒,因此我们的财富让我们幸福的时候,我们只有片刻我们的邻居。
Since the money supply would be shrinking fast, as euro deposits fled the country, this sort of paper would be accepted readily.
随着欧元存款流向国外,货币供应将会迅速萎缩,这种纸币将很容易被接受。
Think of the effect that this will have on the already shrinking economies of your world.
想想这种影响,这将发生在你们世界已经收缩的经济上。
Just then, everybody's looking at this couple with hateful eyes and the couple's going like this, you know, shrinking.
正在那时,每人都带着不满瞪着这对年轻人这对年轻人就像这样,蜷缩在一起。
The problem is not lack of desire to spend, but lack of money: Household disposable income has been shrinking as a share of GDP.
问题不在于人们不想花钱,而是缺钱:家庭可支配收入占GDP的比例一直在缩水。
Faced with shrinking budgets, he wanted something that could be achieved quickly without getting bogged down in red tape.
面对捉襟见肘的预算,他想做些见效快而又不会受官场繁文缛节羁绊的东西。
It is now shrinking, but its remnants must be dragged into the light, with over-the-counter derivatives pushed onto central clearinghouses.
现在它萎缩了,但是其残余势力通过将柜台衍生产品进入中央票据交换所这一过程必将被公之于众。
Credit-card lending is still shrinking, though much more slowly than a year ago.
信用卡贷款仍在萎缩,虽然较一年前放缓了许多。
With all her love of knowledge she had a natural shrinking from raising curtains and looking into unlighted corners.
尽管她喜欢了解一切,但对揭开隐私,看到阴暗的角落时,她天生怀有畏惧心理。
As she looked the image of a growing family seemed to slowly recede to reveal the image of a shrinking woman.
她注视着这些照片……成长中孩子们的图像渐渐退去,变成一个渐渐萎缩的老太婆。
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。
But a new market opened up and dominated by Apple is better than a shrinking market, or no market at all.
但是,苹果开启并主导一个新市场要好过市场萎缩,或根本无市场可言。
Dell, meanwhile, is trying to rebound from shrinking market share in PCs and tightening profit margins.
与此同时,戴尔正试图走出萎缩的PC市场份额和利润空间的局限。