shrink
shrink 英 [ʃrɪŋk] 美 [ʃrɪŋk]
v. 缩小，收缩
进行时:shrinking 过去式:shrank 过去分词:shrunk 第三人称单数:shrinks 名词复数:shrinks
- Shrink is the informal word you can use to talk about a therapist. Talking about your problems with her can hopefully help you shrink them, or make them smaller.
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- v. 缩小，收缩
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1. My sweater shrank in the wash.
我的毛衣缩水了。
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2. The tumour had shrunk to the size of a pea.
肿瘤已缩小到豌豆大小。
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3. The market for their products is shrinking.
市场对他们产品的需求在减少。
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4. Television in a sense has shrunk the world.
从某种意义上说电视把世界缩小了。
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5. He shrank back against the wall as he heard them approaching.
听见他们朝这边来，他退到墙根。
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6. They did not shrink from doing what was right.
只要做得对，他们就无所畏惧。
- shrink (n.) "an act of shrinking," 1580s, from shrink (v.). Slang meaning "psychiatrist," (1966) is from head-shrinker.
- shrink (v.) Old English scrincan "to draw in the limbs, contract, shrivel up; wither, pine away" (class III strong verb; past tense scranc, past participle scruncen), from Proto-Germanic *skrink- (source also of Middle Dutch schrinken), probably from PIE root *sker- (2) "to turn, bend."
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