shrinking

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

v.
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。
n.
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

英汉解释

adj.
1.
畏缩的,退缩的,踌躇的,犹豫不决的
v.
1.
“shrink”的现在分词

英英解释

v.

例句

As an expected increase in the cost of raw materials looms for late summer, consumers are beginning to encounter shrinking food packages.

去年夏天以来由于原料成本意料之中上升消费者开始包装缩水食品

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出生率所以人口每年缩小3万

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.

银行预期下降更快最近利率获得一些不良资产才是亏损原因所在

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下部收缩相结合方式废水最佳设计方案

Antarctic sea ice, for instance, does not seem to be shrinking, probably because increased melting is balanced by more snow.

例如南极洲洋面似乎没有减少可能由于加速融化降雪增多之间达成平衡

The 'bulge' at the Equator had been shrinking by less than a millimetre a year, according to National Geographic.

美国国家地理学会数据显示赤道每年毫米速度萎缩”。

But with all the turmoil in the economy, the product almost certainly would be shrinking if it were not restricted to cash transactions.

但是鉴于经济目前混乱局面如果GDP核算范围限于现金交易的话几乎可以肯定地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.

随着石油需求不断下滑运输燃油油罐车数量减少

And, in a time of shrinking budgets, turf battles between the fusion centers and federal law enforcement are a certainty.

并且预算收缩时期必须掩盖联合中心联邦执法部门之间争夺资金斗争

The consequences of that would be all the more threatening against a background of already shrinking output and trade flows.

产出贸易收缩背景那样后果威胁性

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.

至于明年出口走势乐观开拓新兴市场弥补成熟市场萎缩带来影响

"It sounded As if you were praying, " she said bravely, but she felt herself inside to be withering and shrinking.

听起来好像祷告,”鼓起勇气却不禁感到难受

All this could reduce productivity growth at a time when labour forces in these countries will be growing more slowly or even shrinking.

这些国家劳动力增速进一步放缓甚至出现负增长时候以上这些因素将会成为生产力发展桎梏

Mr Schwarzenegger wanted to eliminate entire programmes wholesale, but now appears ready to settle for shrinking them.

施瓦辛格原本取消整个医疗保障计划目前打算缩小范围

The newest satellite techniques and field observations allow us to see that the volume of ice is shrinking much faster than its area today.

最新卫星技术实地观察我们看到现在体积萎缩速度远远超过面积

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.

只有人才不会看见那些海洋已经属于西方西方支配土地正在缩水

He said the government needed to seek solutions for swelling urban populations and shrinking resources.

政府必须找到可行办法解决城市人口不断增加资源不断减少问题

Sometimes he made an effort, coaxing her to walk with baby steps to exercise her shrinking muscles.

有时设法哄劝小孩学步一样走路这样可以锻炼萎缩肌肉

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" .

奥巴马先生决不老年人任凭保险公司摆布支付医疗费增长保险金缩水”。

Record migration into a fast-shrinking job market have been a charged issue in recent years.

创纪录数量移民涌入一个快速收缩就业市场近年来一直一个引发争议问题

In Europe, with its increasing numbers of elderly and a shrinking labour force, every notch upwards in unemployment spells further misery.

欧洲随着老年人数量上升劳动力人口下滑失业率上升一点意味更多不幸

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.

就让上床睡觉,”那个男孩子回答避开凯瑟招呼退缩手指开始流出眼泪

But a victory over Sony and Microsoft in a shrinking market, he says, would not be a victory at all.

一个萎缩市场取得超越SONY微软胜利并非根本胜利

If your annual loss was shrinking year after year, then you would be probably be able to come out of it, like Amazon did.

如果年度亏损逐年萎缩那么可能亚马逊能够走出这样

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重点减少产量出口

That the world remains so dollar-centric, given America's shrinking share of world output, is something of an anomaly.

如今美国全球经济份额越来越美元这样中心地位正常

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 .

他们似乎没有畏缩意思小姐马车终于按时出发

Science has developed no cure for envy, so our wealth boosts our happiness only briefly while shrinking that of our neighbors.

科学尚未研制出治疗嫉妒因此我们财富我们幸福时候我们只有片刻我们邻居

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迅速萎缩这种纸币容易接受

Think of the effect that this will have on the already shrinking economies of your world.

想想这种影响发生你们世界已经收缩经济

Just then, everybody's looking at this couple with hateful eyes and the couple's going like this, you know, shrinking.

正在那时每人带着不满年轻人年轻人这样蜷缩一起

The problem is not lack of desire to spend, but lack of money: Household disposable income has been shrinking as a share of GDP.

问题在于人们不想花钱而是家庭支配收入GDP比例一直缩水

Faced with shrinking budgets, he wanted something that could be achieved quickly without getting bogged down in red tape.

面对捉襟见肘预算见效不会官场繁文缛节羁绊东西

It is now shrinking, but its remnants must be dragged into the light, with over-the-counter derivatives pushed onto central clearinghouses.

现在萎缩但是残余势力通过柜台衍生产品进入中央票据交换过程必将公之于众

Credit-card lending is still shrinking, though much more slowly than a year ago.

信用卡贷款萎缩虽然放缓许多

With all her love of knowledge she had a natural shrinking from raising curtains and looking into unlighted corners.

尽管喜欢了解一切揭开隐私看到阴暗角落天生怀有畏惧心理

As she looked the image of a growing family seemed to slowly recede to reveal the image of a shrinking woman.

注视这些照片……成长孩子图像渐渐退去变成一个渐渐萎缩老太婆

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

知识分子地位可能缩小一个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.

但是苹果开启主导一个市场好过市场萎缩根本市场

Dell, meanwhile, is trying to rebound from shrinking market share in PCs and tightening profit margins.

与此同时戴尔试图走出萎缩PC市场份额利润空间局限

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