1·My sweater shrank in the wash.
我的毛衣缩水了。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·People were short in those days – or else those military uniforms all shrank in the wash!
那个年代人们很矮–要么就是那些军装在洗涤时全都缩水了！
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Astrogeologists suspect that these scarps having formed billions of years ago as the planet's surface cooled and shrank.
太空地质学家猜测这些陡坡是在几十亿年前当行星表面冷却收缩时开始形成的。
4·With the introduction of Apple's iPhone in the middle of that year, Nokia's market share shrank rapidly and revenue plunged.
在那一年年中，随着苹果 iPhone 的推出，诺基亚的市场份额迅速萎缩，收入大幅下降。
5·Its flagship stores in major U.S. cities depend heavily on international tourist spending, which shrank at many retailers due to a strong dollar.
它在美国主要城市的旗舰店在很大程度上依赖于国际旅游消费，由于美元走强，许多零售商的国际旅游消费出现萎缩。
6·He shrank back against the wall as he heard them approaching.
听见他们朝这边来，他退到墙根。
—— 《牛津词典》
7·He shrank for fear, turned pale, and trembled.
他害怕得缩成一团，脸色苍白，浑身发抖。
8·As the city swallowed up large areas of countryside, farming lands shrank.
随着城市吞没大片农村，耕地变小了。
9·Specifically, paid time off, holidays, vacations, sick leave shrank by 50% in the 1980s.
具体地说，带薪假、公共假期、病假在20世纪80年代缩减了50％。
10·He shrank cringingly to one side.
他卑躬屈膝地退缩到一边。
1·JAPAN's economy probably shrank by over 10% (at an annual rate) in the fourth quarter of 2008.
2008年第四季度，日本经济大概收缩了10%以上(按年率计算)。
2·World markets were mixed Tuesday amid confirmation that the U.S. economy shrank in the third quarter of the year.
世界股市星期二涨跌互现，与此同时，美国证实其经济在今年第三季度出现收缩。
3·World markets were mixed Tuesday amid confirmation that the U. S. economy shrank in the third quarter of the year.
世界股市星期二涨跌互现，与此同时，美国证实其经济在今年第三季度出现收缩。
4·This month, Japan said its economy shrank at an annual rate of 1.3 percent from April through June. It was the third quarter of shrinkage in a row.
日本本月表示，今年4到6月份，日本经济年化收缩了1.3%，这已经是日本经济连续第三个季度收缩。
5·That shrank the vital ice bridge to just 984 yards at its narrowest location.
这已使这个极为重要的冰桥在其最狭窄的位置上收缩到只剩984码了。
1·The IL2 treatment itself wasn't very effective either; it shrank tumors in only 10% of patients.
而单独使用白细胞介素2治疗效果也并不十分明显，只有10％的病人肿瘤有所缩小。
2·Ms Coronado notes that household size shrank over recent decades first as birth rates declined, then as baby boomers' children moved out.
科罗纳女士指出，近数十年来家庭规模的缩小，首先是由于出生率的下降，还有就是由于婴儿潮时期出生的孩子都搬出去了。
3·In those mice, tumors actually shrank, while the drug only slowed tumor growth in mice with defective p53.
在那些小鼠(p 53仍然有功能)，肿瘤真正的缩小了，而药物在p 53缺陷小鼠升上只减慢肿瘤生长。
4·The budget deficit shrank to 3 percent of GDP in 2008/09 from 5.4 percent of GDP in 2005/06, and the debt-to-GDP ratio eased to just over 50 percent of GDP from nearly 70 percent.
预算赤字从2005-06财年占GDP的5.4%缩小到2008-09财年的3%，债务对GDP之比也从近70%降至50%多一点。
5·Several years ago a new lung cancer drug was being evaluated, and when the authors looked at whose tumors shrank, they found that 82 percent were women.
前几年，一种新的肺癌药物正接受评估，当研究人员观察哪些人的肿瘤缩小的时候，他们发现82%是女性。