shrunk是什么意思？

shrunk

英[ʃrʌŋk] 美[ʃrʌŋk]

• v. 收缩( shrink的过去分词 )，（使）缩水，退缩，畏缩；

例句

• The number of students of this school has shrunk. 这所学校的学生人数在减少。
• I confess it with shame--shrunk icily into myself, like a snail. 我羞愧地忏悔了——冷冰冰地退缩，像个蜗牛。
• As his political stature has shrunk, he has grown correspondingly more dependent on the army. 随着政治声望的降低，他变得更加依赖军队了。
• The peasantry has shrunk from 74.6 millions to 65.5. 农民人数已从7460万减至6550万.
• The vast forests of West Africa have shrunk. 西非的大片森林面积已缩小了。
• He had a terror of Earnshaw's reputation, and shrunk from encountering him. 他对恩萧的名声很有戒心, 生怕遇到他.
• This was what Linden had hitherto shrunk from doing, but the situation was desperate. 这是林登一直不愿做的事, 可现在情况已经到了山穷水尽的地步.
• Our budget shrunk because of the instable situation. 因为局势的不稳定,我们的预算缩减.
• I confess it with shame -- shrunk icily into myself, like a snail. 我羞愧地忏悔了 —— 冷冰冰地退缩, 像个蜗牛.
• As the tabloids have hit on hard times, the cheques of chequebook journalism have shrunk. 随着小报纸的不景气, 买断独家采访权的金额也跟着缩减了.

英语四级真题

The financial sector's share of the economy will shrink, and stay shrunk for years to come.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
their production capacity has shrunk to less than half of the previous year
出自-2013年6月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• Shrunk is the past participle of shrink.

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. reduced in size by being drawn together;
  "the shrunken dress was entirely too tight to wear"