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

• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。