shrinking

英 [ˈʃrɪŋkɪŋ]

美 [ˈʃrɪŋkɪŋ]

v.  (使)缩水，收缩，缩小，皱缩; (使)缩小，减少; 退缩; 畏缩
shrink的现在分词

现在分词：shrinking　

医学

BNC.18444 / COCA.11165

柯林斯词典

• VERB (通常指布料、衣服等洗后)缩水，收缩，缩小，皱缩
  If cloth or clothingshrinks, 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。
• V-ERG (使)缩小;(使)收缩;(使)减少
  If somethingshrinksor something elseshrinksit, 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。
• VERB (因害怕、震惊或厌恶)退缩，畏缩，避开
  If youshrink away fromsomeone 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。
• VERB 畏避，回避(工作、责任等)
  If you do notshrink froma 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。
• N-COUNT 精神病学家;心理学家
  Ashrinkis a psychiatrist.
  1. I've seen a shrink already.
     我已经看过心理专家了。
• no shrinking violet→ see:violet

英英释义

noun

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

双语例句

• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Economic shrinking has finally been overpassed now.
  现在经济萎缩终于过去了。
• You talk about shrinking budgets.
  你刚刚谈到了预算缩水的问题。