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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Shrinking or flinching in fear.
  在害怕中退缩或者畏缩。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。