shrinks

英 [ʃrɪŋks]

美 [ʃrɪŋks]

v.  (使)缩水，收缩，缩小，皱缩; (使)缩小，减少; 退缩; 畏缩
n.  精神病学家; 心理学家
shrink的第三人称单数和复数

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

双语例句

• Whenever you have something big and it shrinks, you want to keep the good ones.
  如果有，无论何时你要把一个大家伙缩减掉，你总想要保住那些出色的人。
• Interest rates tend to fall, as household and business incomes drop and demand for money and credit shrinks.
  而利率倾向于会下跌则是因为，家庭和企业收入下降，货币需求和信贷需求也出现萎缩。
• If such financing dries up, economic activity shrinks.
  如果这种融资枯竭，经济活动就会收缩。
• You can now return a jacket with the collar and lapel set with the same piece of equipment that was used in the garment's original manufacture, which shrinks and molds the collar.
  现在，您可以返回夹克的领子和翻领一套相同的设备所用的服装的原始生产，这缩小了和铸模的衣领。
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
  生活的充实和贫乏与勇气的大小成正比。
• Officials acknowledge that maintaining near self-sufficiency in grain will become harder as the population grows and arable land shrinks.
  中国官员承认，随着人口增长和耕地减少，保持粮食基本自足将变得越发艰难。
• Making all this worse will be the collapse in private sector demand, as credit shrinks and wealth falls.
  让这一切变得更糟的是，随着信贷收缩以及财富减少，私营领域需求将垮塌。
• This cloth shrinks in the wash.
  这种布一洗就抽。
• The main reflection and shrinks slightly and so on the pronunciation aspect's variation including the harmonics several forms.
  主要反映在语音方面的变异包括谐音和缩略等几种形式。
• The brain shrinks with age, even in the healthiest of people.
  人体的大脑会随着年龄的增长而萎缩，哪怕是身体最健康的人也不例外。