shrink是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to become smaller, or to make something smaller -- （使）縮小，（使）變小

  • Your sweater will shrink if you wash it at too high a temperature. 用溫度過高的水洗毛衣，毛衣會縮水。

  • The company's profits have shrunk from $5.5 million to $1.25 million. 公司利潤從550萬美元減少到了125萬美元。

  • The productivity improvements have shrunk our costs by 25 percent. 生産率的提高使我們的成本下降了25%。

• 1 to move away from someone or something because you are frightened -- 畏縮，退縮

  • The child shrank behind the sofa as his father shouted at him. 孩子在父親對著他吼叫時退縮到了沙發後面。

  • When she was younger she would shrink (away) from me whenever I spoke to her. 她小的時候，我一和她說話她就會退縮。

• 2 a psychiatrist or psychoanalyst -- 精神病醫生

  • I was so depressed that I ended up going to see a shrink. 我太鬱悶了，最後不得不去找心理醫生看看。