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VERB
(通常指布料、衣服等洗后)縮水，收縮，縮小，皺縮
If cloth or clothing shrinks, it becomes smaller in size, usually as a result of being washed.
例句
All my jumpers have shrunk.
我所有的套頭毛衣都縮水了。
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V-ERG
(使)縮小;(使)收縮;(使)減少
If something shrinks or something else shrinks it, it becomes smaller.
例句
The vast forests of West Africa have shrunk...
西非的大片森林面積已縮小了。
Hungary may have to lower its hopes of shrinking its state sector.
匈牙利可能不得不降低其縮小國家軍事管制區(qū)的期望。
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VERB
(因害怕、震驚或厭惡)退縮，畏縮，避開
If you shrink away from someone or something, you move away from them because you are frightened, shocked, or disgusted by them.
例句
One child shrinks away from me when I try to talk to him...
當(dāng)我試圖和一個孩子說話時，他避開了我。
Siegfried cringed and shrank against the wall...
西格弗里德畏縮了，退避到墻根。
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VERB
畏避，回避(工作、責(zé)任等)
If you do not shrink from a task or duty, you do it even though it is unpleasant or dangerous.
例句
We must not shrink from the legitimate use of force if we are to remain credible...
我們要想保持誠信可靠，就絕不能避忌武力的合法使用。
They didn't shrink from danger.
他們在危險面前沒有退縮。
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N-COUNT
精神病學(xué)家;心理學(xué)家
A shrink is a psychiatrist.
例句
I've seen a shrink already.
我已經(jīng)看過心理專家了。