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

• You talk about shrinking budgets.
  你刚刚谈到了预算缩水的问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。