shrinking

基本解释

Economic shrinking has finally been overpassed now.
现在经济萎缩终于过去了。
Shipments from Europe to America are also shrinking, after three years of solid growth.
从欧洲到美国的出货量在三年稳固的上升后也出现了收缩。
However, with the trade deficit in the US and other countries shrinking, some economists fear China could yet face a wrenching adjustment in its external accounts.
不过，随着美国和其它国家的贸易逆差缩小，一些经济学家担心，中国仍可能面对一次外部账户的痛苦调整。

Major industrialized economies are expected to see the biggest decreases, shrinking by almost four percent.
Some people can fight the brain off in this case, and control their food intake, maintain a healthy diet, and maintain a normal weight, but the number of such people in the population is shrinking by the day.
有些人可以抵制大脑的控制,控制食物的摄入量,维持健康饮食保持正常体重,而今,这类人的数量日益减少
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Now these parts of the world are shrinking in the number; but let's say you lived in Ethiopia or Somalia, or places where food really is scarce way too much of the time, then having this particular biological drive, having a brain that wants you to seek out these foods would be highly adaptive.
现在这些地区的数量正在减少,但如果你生活在埃塞俄比亚或是索马里,或是当前食品十分短缺的地区,那么拥有这种生物驱动力,拥有不断驱使你去寻找食物的大脑,会让你有极强的适应能力
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Illegal aliens could potentially add millions to the shrinking ranks of America's labor unions.
FORBES: Labor Won't Embrace Immigrants

If cloth or clothing shrinks, it becomes smaller in size, usually as a result of being washed.
If something shrinks or something else shrinks it, it becomes smaller.
If you shrink away from someone or something, you move away from them because you are frightened, shocked, or disgusted by them.
If you do not shrink from a task or duty, you do it even though it is unpleasant or dangerous.
A shrink is a psychiatrist.
no shrinking violet&rarrsee violet

萎缩
At present, traditional voice service market is shrinking continuously and APRU of telecommunication carrier decreases.
当前,电信运营商面临着竞争不断加剧、传统话音业务市场萎缩、APRU值逐步下降的市场形势。
交通运输工程
收缩
Most areas of Saudi Arabia belong to tropic desert climate,it is scorching and dry in summer and the temperature may exceed 50℃. The concrete just-poured is prone to produce shrinking cracks because of the high temperature and rapid water vaporizing.
沙特阿拉伯王国大部分地区属热带沙漠气候,夏季炎热干燥,最高气温可达50℃以上,现浇混凝土因气温高、水分蒸发快易产生收缩裂缝。
化学
减容