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 shrink [ʃriŋk]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 收缩, 萎缩, 回避

vi. 收缩, 退缩, 萎缩, 缩小, 回避

vt. 使收缩, 使缩小

[机] 收缩




    shrink
    shrank, shrunk, shrunken


    Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. {Shrank}or {Shrunk}p. p. {Shrunk}
    or {Shrunken}, but the latter is now seldom used except as a
    participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shrinking}.] [OE.
    shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken,
    and probably to Sw. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle,
    to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF. {Shrimp}.]
    1. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract
    into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to
    become compacted.

    And on a broken reed he still did stay
    His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he
    lay. --Spenser.

    I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes,
    will shrink or draw into less room. --Bacon.

    Against this fire do I shrink up. --Shak.

    And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
    --Dryden.

    All the boards did shrink. --Coleridge.

    2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action
    from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.

    What happier natures shrink at with affright,
    The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope.

    They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank
    from the task. --Jowett
    (Thucyd.)

    3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body,
    or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak.


    Shrink \Shrink\, v. t.
    1. To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by
    imersing it in boiling water.

    2. To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.]

    The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn. --Milton.

    {To shrink on} (Mach.), to fix (one piece or part) firmly
    around (another) by natural contraction in cooling, as a
    tire on a wheel, or a hoop upon a cannon, which is made
    slightly smaller than the part it is to fit, and expanded
    by heat till it can be slipped into place.


    Shrink \Shrink\, n.
    1. The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil;
    withdrawal.

    Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink,
    That I had less to praise. --Leigh Hunt.

    2. [Contraction of head-shrinker, a colloquial term for
    psychiatrist.] a psychiatrist. [Coll.]
    [PJC]

    1. But Mr. Kobayashi also pointed to structural factors that led the surplus to shrink.
    2. "There are more resignations coming," said one Salomon senior executive, who predicted the firm would shrink by a third because of the effects of the scandal.
    3. The cheaper dollar has brought about an export boom and the trade deficit has begun to shrink, although more slowly than almost anyone had predicted.
    4. The cutbacks, the most severe yet in the carrier's effort to shrink its way to profitability, make it plain that Eastern will readily liquidate any operation that fails to promise short-term returns.
    5. "A lot of us shrink carrying the burden of making it," he adds.
    6. The distiller is also trying to shrink dependence on its spirits business, in an era when liquor consumption is declining at about 2% annually.
    7. The Air Force alone may have to shrink by almost 1,000 planes and cut about $50 billion from its procurement plans through 1997.
    8. To shrink the massive budget deficit, the SIA board suggested reducing the growth of Social Security deductions to half the inflation rate, from its current inflation-indexed rate, Mr. James said.
    9. When enacted, the bill is to be the heart of an effort to shrink the deficit by $500 billion over the next five years.
    10. Honeywell Bull Inc. said it will shrink its U.S. work force about 10% over the next year as part of a reorganization of the multinational computer maker's operation.
    11. Preliminary reports from the area indicate the populations of both government-held towns and those in rebel hands, which had swelled immensely because of displaced people, have begun to shrink since the rainy season ended in October.
    12. Those who want the job probably underestimate the difficulties, while those who appreciate the enormity of the task may shrink from it, industry executives say. Yet IBM's problems are not unique.
    13. The move could eventually shrink Shell's service-station presence in the region.
    14. We saw the number of employees continue to shrink," said Paul Rausch, president of Local 9231 at I-N Tek, who formerly worked at Inland's steel-making plant, Indiana Harbor Works.
    15. The Reagan administration is considering a national lottery to help shrink the federal budget deficit, according to administration and congressional sources.
    16. Some states are seeing their revenue growth slow, and may soon begin to see revenue shrink, Mr. Leonard warns.
    17. Dole's weakened campaign, meanwhile, continued to shrink, with only about 10 to 12 aides left on the payroll, according to spokeswoman Dale Tate.
    18. "But as you shrink, some of those jobs never come back.
    19. Defense Secretary Cheney's budget already proposes to shrink the military by 25% through 1995, to the lowest level as a share of the economy since 1939.
    20. Expensive purchases normally financed with loans _ like cars _ were predicted to shrink as consumers became obliged to spend more on things such as mortgage payments.
    21. As a result, the nation's stockpile of wheat by June 1989 is expected to shrink in half to 579 million bushels from the 1.2 billion-bushel level of last June.
    22. Salomon has said it will take a pretax charge of as much as $200 million, expected in this quarter, to shrink the ailing unit.
    23. Construction and consumer manufacturing businesses will continue to show growth, while profit declines in basic material industries will shrink sharply.
    24. Nicholas Heymann, a Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. analyst, noted that Westinghouse allowed the division to shrink in size in recent years.
    25. But all metal stocks are likely to shrink quickly when demand picks up, he suggests - and prices go up as stocks go down. LME traders meanwhile hope that the recent upsurge in business is not another false dawn.
    26. But it did appear to signal doubts about what any president would be able to do to shrink the federal budget deficit without inducing a recession.
    27. "In a predominantly fixed-rate market, loan servicing by banks and thrifts will grow, but their loan portfolios will shrink," says Mr. Harting.
    28. The idea was that a cheaper dollar would help shrink the U.S. trade deficit and reduce protectionist sentiments in Congress.
    29. Anglo American's holding would shrink to 26.6 percent from 39.1 percent and De Beers' to 14.3 percent from 21 percent.
    30. Kittani also said that "the Iranian regime has subjected the prisoners to every atrocity from which a civilized human being would shrink.
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