shrinking

1. VERB (通常指布料、衣服等洗后)缩水，收缩，缩小，皱缩
   If cloth or clothing shrinks, it becomes smaller in size, usually as a result of being washed.
   1. All my jumpers have shrunk.
      我所有的套头毛衣都缩水了。
2. V-ERG (使)缩小;(使)收缩;(使)减少
   If something shrinks or something else shrinks it, it becomes smaller.
   1. The vast forests of West Africa have shrunk...
      西非的大片森林面积已缩小了。
   2. Hungary may have to lower its hopes of shrinking its state sector.
      匈牙利可能不得不降低其缩小国家军事管制区的期望。
3. VERB (因害怕、震惊或厌恶)退缩，畏缩，避开
   If you shrink away from someone or something, you move away from them because you are frightened, shocked, or disgusted by them.
   1. One child shrinks away from me when I try to talk to him...
      当我试图和一个孩子说话时，他避开了我。
   2. Siegfried cringed and shrank against the wall...
      西格弗里德畏缩了，退避到墙根。
   3. She shrank back with an involuntary gasp.
      她不由得倒抽了口冷气，往后退了退。
4. VERB 畏避，回避(工作、责任等)
   If you do not shrink from a task or duty, you do it even though it is unpleasant or dangerous.
   1. We must not shrink from the legitimate use of force if we are to remain credible...
      我们要想保持诚信可靠，就绝不能避忌武力的合法使用。
   2. They didn't shrink from danger.
      他们在危险面前没有退缩。
5. N-COUNT 精神病学家;心理学家
   A shrink is a psychiatrist.
   1. I've seen a shrink already.
      我已经看过心理专家了。
6. no shrinking violet → see: violet

1. Shrinking economies mean falling tax revenues and more government debt.
   经济收缩意味着税收的减少和政府债务的增加。
2. Hungary may have to lower its hopes of shrinking its state sector.
   匈牙利可能不得不降低其缩小国家军事管制区的期望。
3. When it comes to expressing himself he is no shrinking violet
   他在表达自己的想法时毫不羞怯。
4. None of the women he paints, however, could be described as shrinking violets.
   然而，他画过的所有女人中没有一个是羞涩腼腆的。
5. Sony has also led the way in shrinking the size of compact-disc players.
   索尼公司在缩小CD播放机的体积方面也处于领先地位。
6. The department has been shrinking year by year because of budget cuts.
   这个部门因为预算削减而逐年萎缩。
7. Economic shrinking has finally been overpassed now.
   现在经济萎缩终于过去了。
8. Property developers will face challenges including shrinking profit margins and intensifying competition.
   房地产开发商将面临包括利润率下降和竞争加剧在内的种种挑战。
9. You talk about shrinking budgets.
   你刚刚谈到了预算缩水的问题。
10. For all their differences, tabloids in most rich countries have one common feature: shrinking circulation.
    尽管他们存在这么多的不同，大多数富有国家的小报中存在着一个共同的特点：萎缩的发行量。
11. Behind weak activity: a slowdown in trade and shrinking real-estate investment.
    制造业活动低迷背后的原因在于，贸易增长放缓和房地产投资收缩。
12. This finding goes against previous research which had showed that social network sizes are shrinking.
    这个发现和过去表明社交圈子在缩小的研究结果不一样。
13. Ireland has adopted a strategy of shrinking to grow.
    爱尔兰已采取了通过收缩实现增长的战略。
14. The main impact of the financial crisis has not been factory closures but shrinking orders and manufacturing capacity.
    金融危机的主要冲击并不是工厂关门，而是订单和制造产能的缩水。
15. So it will fall to Hungary's mainstream politicians to handle the shrinking economy and manage the austerity programme.
    因此，解决经济萎缩和实施节俭计划的重任将落在匈牙利主流政治家肩上。
16. The shrinking financial system will also undermine another central foundation of the strength of the US economy.
    金融系统的萎缩也将削弱美国经济力量的另一个核心基础。
17. As the financial crisis squeezes the real economy, urban white-collar workers speak of shrinking bonuses and frozen wages.
    金融危机真正的紧压了经济，都市白领谈到他们收缩的奖金和冻结的薪水。
18. We would have avoided all this suffering simply by shrinking from strife.
    要是我们在冲突面前畏缩不前，我们可以避免这些痛苦；
19. It has been engulfed, like the rest of the world, by recession and shrinking global trade.
    它已经像世界其他国家一样被经济衰退和全球贸易萎缩所吞没。
20. Private museums speed up, too, 21st-century crises of shrinking art resources and growing demand.
    此外，私人博物馆还加速了21世纪艺术品资源不断下降和需求不断上升的危机。
21. Shrinking or flinching in fear.
    在害怕中退缩或者畏缩。
22. The essential choice of raising capital or shrinking their balance sheets remains for many continental European banks.
    对欧洲大陆的许多银行来说，是增加资本金，还是收缩资产负债表，依然是它们面临的一个重要选择。
23. The personal market appears to be shrinking, according to the market research firms Gartner and IDC.
    根据市场调研公司Gartner和IDC提供的数据，个人电脑（PC）市场出现了萎缩迹象。
24. The same study also shows that smaller glaciers are shrinking much more rapidly than larger ones.
    这项研究还表明，较小的冰川缩退的速度比较大的冰川要快得多。
25. Pressure for land for agriculture also resulted in the forest area shrinking in both size and quality.
    需要更多土地进行农业的压力也导致了森林面积的数量和质量的缩水。
26. These losses are eating into banks 'capital and shrinking their capacity to add assets.
    这些亏损侵蚀了银行的资本金，缩小了它们增添资产的余地。
27. The current cuts, bullying managers and ever increasing workloads on a shrinking workforce cannot continue.
    目前的削减，欺凌的管理人员和对减少的劳动力日益增加的工作量不能再继续下去。
28. How do you keep wages and benefits in line with shrinking profit margins?
    你如何在边际利润下降的情况下让雇员的工资和你的企业的利益相一致？
29. This paper is focused on the analysis of three nozzles with different entrance shrinking angle with FEM method.
    文中运用有限元法对三种不同入口收缩角的喷嘴进行了分析。

noun

1. the act of becoming less

2. process or result of becoming less or smaller
   1. the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage

   Synonym:    shrinkage