Shrinking

1·While this loss of stature is attributed partially to shrinking bones and the other physiological effects of aging, some researchers say this is no coincidence at all.

虽然身高减少的部分原因是衰老所产生的骨骼收缩以及其他生理现象，但一些研究人员说这绝非巧合。

2·THE economy stopped shrinking a year ago, but America’s unemployment problem is as big as ever.

一年前，美国的经济已经停止收缩，但是美国失业问题仍然像以前一样严峻。

3·Any shrinking of this premium may suggest markets have become more liquid.

任何溢价的收缩可能意味着市场更具有流动性。

4·By early next year, output and jobs could be shrinking. The main cause is the imploding housing market.

急转直下的房地产市场，可能会导致下年年初产出和工作机会的收缩。

5·It would complicate the Fed's job of eventually shrinking its balance-sheet.

这将使得美联储最终收缩其资产负债表的工作复杂化。

1·Sony has also led the way in shrinking the size of compact-disc players.

索尼公司在缩小CD播放机尺寸方面也处于领先地位。

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2·If you make the changes above and your waistline isn't shrinking, a standup desk may be the answer.

如果作了以上改变，而腰围还没有缩小，一台立式电脑桌可能是答案。

3·If you do not have sufficient unallocated disk space, you can create space by shrinking or deleting some existing volumes.

如果没有足够的未分配空间，可以通过缩小或删除现有分区来创建这部分空间。

4·We must seize this moment. We must be the first generation to think both as nationals of our countries and as global citizens in an ever shrinking and more connected planet.

我们必须抓住这个时机，我们必须成为同时作为我们本国的国民和一个日益缩小、联系日益密切的星球上的世界公民的角度思考问题的第一代人。

5·If American transportation and logistics experts got the feeling the past year that the overall U.S. business logistics pie was shrinking, they were correct.

如果美国的运输和物流方面的专家对于去年有这样一种感觉：美国商业物流这块蛋糕在缩小，那他们是对的。

1·Forests are fast shrinking in many developing countries.

许多发展中国家的森林正在迅速萎缩。

2·In the past 12 months, Nigeria has suffered from a shrinking economy, a sliding currency, and a prolonged fuel shortage.

在过去的12个月里，尼日利亚饱受经济萎缩、货币贬值和长期燃料短缺的困扰。

3·The plants also change shape, shrinking to minimize the surface area through which their remaining water might evaporate.

这些植物还会改变形状，萎缩以使表面积最小化，剩余水分正是通过植物表面蒸发掉的。

4·Now these segments are looking at slower growth curves—or shrinking markets in some cases—as consumers are not as eager to spend money on new gadgets.

现在，由于消费者不那么热衷于花钱购买新的小玩意，这些细分市场的增长曲线出现了放缓，在某些情况下甚至出现了市场萎缩。

5·When an organisation is shrinking, the best and most mobile workers are prone to leave voluntarily.

当一个组织在萎缩时，最优秀、流动性最强的员工往往会自愿离职。

1·Either all of my clothes are shrinking when I wash them or I am getting fatter!

要么我洗衣服时我的所有衣服在缩水，要么我在长胖！

2·To be internationally competitive, the shrinking labor force will need to transform itself from low-cost to high-skill.

为了具备国际竞争力，缩水中的劳动力必须完成从低成本到高技能的转型。

3·Public health now finds itself caught in a cross-current of rising expectations and ambitions, set against rising demands and costs, at a time when funds are stagnant or shrinking.

目前的公共卫生本身正处于与不断提高的期望和抱负相矛盾的境地，在这样一个要求和花费不断攀升的时期恰恰是资金断流或缩水的时期。

4·Pepsi's problem is that it is a big brand in a shrinking market.

百事的问题在于，它是一个缩水市场的大型品牌。

5·With the economy still shedding jobs (albeit at a lower rate), share prices falling, the housing market still wobbly and household debt shrinking, consumer spending is likely to remain subdued.

随着经济依然蜕落工作(虽然在一个低利率，)股票价格跌落，房地产市场依然不稳定，家庭债务缩水，消费者消费依然止步不前。

1·He invariably imagines positively that he can win in every hurdle race, never shrinking in front of other experienced players. That's why he works wonders again and again.

他总是积极地想象自己每场比赛都能胜出，面对其他经验丰富的选手时从不退缩，因此他一次又一次地创造了奇迹。

2·Scientists think that the glacier is shrinking because the ocean water that flows under the glacier is warming, increasing melt at the base.

科学家认为冰川退缩是因为冰川下的海水温度变高，增加了基层的融化。

3·Vladimir Petoukhov of the Potsdam Institute says that the effects of shrinking sea ice "could triple the probability of cold winter extremes in Europe and northern Asia".

德国波茨坦研究所（Potsdam Institute）的波图霍夫•弗拉基米尔（Vladimir Petoukhov）说，海上浮冰的退缩产生的影响“能够使欧洲和亚洲北部极寒气候的可能性增大两倍。”

4·Tthe basic variables of family environment have significant negative relation with the factors of moral and disposition flaw, shrinking back behavior, behavioral hinder in psychological health.

家庭环境基本变量因子与心理健康中情绪、性格缺陷、退缩行为、行为障碍因子存在显著负相关。

5·There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

害怕他人在你周围感觉不安，从而一味地退缩，不会给这个世界带来任何启迪。