shrinking

单词shrinking

基本解释

v.: 收缩；减少；退缩；畏缩
n.: 精神病学家；心理学家
网络: 皱缩；缩短；缩小的

权威解释

• （使）缩水，收缩，缩小，皱缩:

  to become smaller, especially when washed in water that is too hot; to make clothes, cloth, etc. smaller in this way

• （使）缩小，收缩，减少:

  to become or to make sth smaller in size or amount

• 退缩；畏缩:

  to move back or away from sth because you are frightened or shocked

• （指羞怯的人）:

  a way of describing a very shy person

• 精神病学家；心理学家:

  a psychiatrist or psychologist

英汉解释

• 畏缩的,退缩的,踌躇的,犹豫不决的

同义词

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例句

• As an expected increase in the cost of raw materials looms for late summer, consumers are beginning to encounter shrinking food packages.

  从去年夏天以来，由于原料成本意料之中的上升，消费者们开始买到包装缩水的食品。

• But Serbia has one of the oldest populations in Europe and a low fertility rate, so the population is shrinking by 30, 000 a year.

  但是塞尔维亚有着欧洲老年人口最多和低出生率，所以人口每年缩小3万人。

• Losses on the toxic loans LBG inherited in that deal have been shrinking at a much faster rate of late than the bank had anticipated.

  在比银行预期下降更快的最近的利率下，获得一些不良的资产，这才是亏损的原因所在。

• The only optimum design scheme was the combination form of full breadth weir and downside the shrinking weir.

  通过分析比较，确定上部全幅堰与下部侧收缩堰相结合的方式是废水测流堰槽的最佳设计方案。

• Antarctic sea ice, for instance, does not seem to be shrinking, probably because increased melting is balanced by more snow.

  例如，南极洲洋面上的冰似乎没有减少，可能是由于加速融化与降雪增多之间达成了平衡。

• The "bulge" at the Equator had been shrinking by less than a millimetre a year, according to National Geographic.

  美国国家地理学会的数据显示，赤道每年都在以不到一毫米的速度“萎缩”。

• But with all the turmoil in the economy, the product almost certainly would be shrinking if it were not restricted to cash transactions.

  但是，鉴于经济目前的混乱局面，如果GDP的核算范围不局限于现金交易的话，几乎可以肯定地说，国内生产总值正在萎缩之中。

• He said the number of tanker vehicles hauling fuel has dropped on a shrinking demand for petroleum.

  他说，随着石油需求不断下滑，运输燃油的油罐车数量减少。

• And, in a time of shrinking budgets, turf battles between the fusion centers and federal law enforcement are a certainty.

  并且，在预算收缩的时期，必须掩盖联合中心与联邦执法部门之间争夺资金的斗争。

• The consequences of that would be all the more threatening against a background of already shrinking output and trade flows.

  在产出和贸易流已在收缩的背景下，那样的后果威胁性只会更大。