shrinking

基本解釋

Economic shrinking has finally been overpassed now.
現(xiàn)在經(jīng)濟(jì)萎縮終于過去了。
Shipments from Europe to America are also shrinking, after three years of solid growth.
從歐洲到美國的出貨量在三年穩(wěn)固的上升后也出現(xiàn)了收縮。
However, with the trade deficit in the US and other countries shrinking, some economists fear China could yet face a wrenching adjustment in its external accounts.
不過，隨著美國和其它國家的貿(mào)易逆差縮小，一些經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家擔(dān)心，中國仍可能面對一次外部賬戶的痛苦調(diào)整。

Major industrialized economies are expected to see the biggest decreases, shrinking by almost four percent.
Some people can fight the brain off in this case, and control their food intake, maintain a healthy diet, and maintain a normal weight, but the number of such people in the population is shrinking by the day.
有些人可以抵制大腦的控制,控制食物的攝入量,維持健康飲食保持正常體重,而今,這類人的數(shù)量日益減少
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Now these parts of the world are shrinking in the number; but let's say you lived in Ethiopia or Somalia, or places where food really is scarce way too much of the time, then having this particular biological drive, having a brain that wants you to seek out these foods would be highly adaptive.
現(xiàn)在這些地區(qū)的數(shù)量正在減少,但如果你生活在埃塞俄比亞或是索馬里,或是當(dāng)前食品十分短缺的地區(qū),那么擁有這種生物驅(qū)動力,擁有不斷驅(qū)使你去尋找食物的大腦,會讓你有極強(qiáng)的適應(yīng)能力
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Illegal aliens could potentially add millions to the shrinking ranks of America's labor unions.
FORBES: Labor Won't Embrace Immigrants

If cloth or clothing shrinks, it becomes smaller in size, usually as a result of being washed.
If something shrinks or something else shrinks it, it becomes smaller.
If you shrink away from someone or something, you move away from them because you are frightened, shocked, or disgusted by them.
If you do not shrink from a task or duty, you do it even though it is unpleasant or dangerous.
A shrink is a psychiatrist.
no shrinking violet&rarrsee violet

萎縮
At present, traditional voice service market is shrinking continuously and APRU of telecommunication carrier decreases.
當(dāng)前,電信運(yùn)營商面臨著競爭不斷加劇、傳統(tǒng)話音業(yè)務(wù)市場萎縮、APRU值逐步下降的市場形勢。
交通運(yùn)輸工程
收縮
Most areas of Saudi Arabia belong to tropic desert climate,it is scorching and dry in summer and the temperature may exceed 50℃. The concrete just-poured is prone to produce shrinking cracks because of the high temperature and rapid water vaporizing.
沙特阿拉伯王國大部分地區(qū)屬熱帶沙漠氣候,夏季炎熱干燥,最高氣溫可達(dá)50℃以上,現(xiàn)澆混凝土因氣溫高、水分蒸發(fā)快易產(chǎn)生收縮裂縫。
化學(xué)
減容