Shrinking是什么意思？

Shrinking

英[ʃrɪŋkɪŋ] 美[ʃrɪŋkɪŋ]

• v. 收缩( shrink的现在分词 )，（使）缩水，退缩，畏缩；

例句

• 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.
• Mismanagement and climate change are shrinking clean water supplies worldwide. 管理不善(mismanagement)和气候变化正在逐步削弱全球干净水资源的供应.
• When it comes to expressing himself he is no shrinking violet. 他在表达自己的想法时毫不羞怯。
• While sinking into thinking, the shrinking linkman drank the pink ink sprinkled on the wrinkly paper. 陷入沉思时, 退缩的联络员喝失了洒在皱纹纸上的粉红色墨水.
• While sinking into thinking, the shrinking linkman drank the pink ink rinkled on the wrinkly paper. 陷入沉思时, 退缩的联络员喝掉了洒在皱纹纸上的粉红色墨水.
• Whellole sinking into thellonking, the shrinking linkman drank the pink ink sprinkled on the wrinkly paper. 陷入沉思时, 退缩的联结员喝掉了洒在皱纹纸上的粉红色墨水.
• The impoverished population is shrinking substantially and the impoverishment rate is decreasing sharply. 贫困人口大幅度减少,贫困发生率大幅度下降.
• The nucleus in shrinking cytoplasm of microspore mother cell enters into diakinesis stage .16. 收缩的小孢子母细胞中核进入减数分裂终变期.
• 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。
• When it comes to expressing himself he is no shrinking violet... 他在表达自己的想法时毫不羞怯。

英语六级真题

But at a time when the American factory seems to be a shrinking presence, and when good manufacturing jobs have vanished, perhaps never to return, there is something deeply troubling about this dilution of American craftsmanship.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
Manufacturing's shrinking presence undoubtedly helps explain the decline in craftsmanship, if only because many of the nation's assembly line workers were skilled in craft work, if not on the job then in their spare time
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
They have stagnant (萧条的) or shrinking markets for goods and services.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  (通常指布料、衣服等洗后)缩水，收缩，缩小，皱缩
  If cloth or clothing shrinks, it becomes smaller in size, usually as a result of being washed.
  例句
  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 something shrinks or something else shrinks it, it becomes smaller.
  例句
  The vast forests of West Africa have shrunk... 西非的大片森林面积已缩小了。 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 you shrink away from someone or something, you move away from them because you are frightened, shocked, or disgusted by them.
  例句
  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。 Siegfried cringed and shrank against the wall... 西格弗里德畏缩了，退避到墙根。
• VERB
  畏避，回避(工作、责任等)
  If you do not shrink from a task or duty, you do it even though it is unpleasant or dangerous.
  例句
  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。 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
  A shrink is a psychiatrist.
  例句
  I've seen a shrink already. 我已经看过心理专家了。

英英词典释义

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