When concrete loses moisture by evaporation it shrinks.
当混凝土由蒸发丢失水分时便产生了收缩现象。
Each time I face one of my fears, it shrinks and ultimately disappears.
每当我直面一种畏惧，它就会缩小，最终消失。
Once heat is applied, it shrinks again, creating an air-tight, durable wrapping.
一俟加热，它再次收缩，形成一个气密而耐用的包装。
Most significantly of all, it shrinks the volume of the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus.
最为明显的是，它缩小了前额叶皮质和海马体的体积。
Every summer, it shrinks back down, and the minimum has for the most part been getting smaller and smaller.
每到夏季，它又下降，大部分时间里，最小值一直下滑、变得越来越小。
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false - it is impalpable - it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.
对那个不真实的人来说，整个宇宙都是虚伪的——都是难以触摸的，在他的把握之中化为子虚乌有。
This can help you reduce the start-up time of your application's features because it shrinks the size of the initial binary.
这能够减少应用程序特性的启动时间，因为它压缩了初始二进制文件的大小。
pvresize extends PVs if the underlying partition has also been extended; it shrinks PV if the allocation map permits it.
pvresize：如果底层分区也已经扩展了，那么可以用这个操作扩展PV；如果分配图允许的话，它也可以缩小 PV。
In 2007 Dick Fuld, the former head of Lehman Brothers, observed that whereas credit grows arithmetically, it shrinks geometrically.
2007年，雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)前首席执行官迪克·福尔德(DickFuld)认为，尽管算术上信用在不断增长，但从几何学上来说，却是在下降。
In pregnancy your tummy extends to impressive proportions, and when it shrinks back down a common concern is the lack of skin tone.
在怀孕期间，您的肚子扩张到惊人的程度，当生产过后，肚子就出现皮肤松弛的现象。
Most significantly of all, it shrinks the volume of the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus. These are the parts of the brain most closely associated with working memory.
最重要的一点是，压力能够减少前额皮质和海马体的数量——而这些都是同工作记忆关联最紧密的部位。
Astronomers theorize that a black hole forms when a massive object shrinks catastrophically under its own gravity, leaving only a gravitational field so strong that nothing escapes it.
天文学家的理论是，当一个巨大的物体在其自身的引力作用下灾难性地收缩，只留下一个强大的引力场，且没有任何东西能逃脱时，黑洞就形成了。
Ecologists have now discovered another effect. It would appear that, as the habitat shrinks, so too do the creatures that live there.
生态学家目前已经发现栖息地面积缩小的另一种影响，在那些栖息地面积缩小的同时，生活在那里的动物体积也随着缩小。
When Europe's economies shrink, Italy's shrinks more; when they grow, it grows less.
当欧洲经济缩水时，意大利缩水的更加厉害。当经济增长时，意大利经济增长更慢。
Timber swells when it is damp and shrinks when it is dry because it contains groups of atoms called hydroxyl groups, which absorb and release water.
木材在潮湿的时候就会膨胀，而干燥的时候会缩小，这取决于其中含有的氢氧基团，它可以吸收和释放水分。
That should increase not just the amount of methane collected but also the capacity of the landfill, since waste shrinks as it rots.
这种方法不仅能增加沼气的收集量，而且能增大垃圾填埋场的容纳量，因为垃圾腐烂过程中体积会变小。
As the user shrinks the view, this column continues to shrink until it reaches its minimum width.
当用户缩小视图时，这个列不断收缩，直到到达最小宽度。
As the world shrinks, it becomes more difficult to ignore the potential users of your software that speak different languages and live in different cultures.
随着全球化的不断推进，更加难以忽略那些潜在的、讲着不同语言、生活在不同文化中的软件用户。
But as agriculture shrinks as a proportion of gdp-it made up 30% in 1990-the impact of poor monsoons is reduced.
不过农业的比重在不断减少，1990年，农业曾占到了GDP的30%，相应地，缺雨的季风带来的影响也在减少。
It is very much like a hosting service, but one that grows and shrinks to meet your needs.
它与托管服务非常相似，但是能够根据需求快速地增减容量。
Search will get bigger before it gets smaller; it accounted for 40% of 2006 online advertising and is forecast to grow to nearly 50% before its share shrinks.
搜索引擎所占的广告份额将会暂时变大。2006年搜索引擎的网络广告收入占到了整个网络广告收入的40%，预计其峰值将达到50%，随后下降。
Though patterns can be described — nutrient levels shift, an animal population grows, another shrinks — it can be hard to know what’s coincidental and what’s linked.
我们虽然能够描述各种模式——营养水平的变化、某种动物数量的增加、另一种动物数量的减少——但是要知道哪些纯属巧合，哪些有必然的联系，可能会很难。
Zoom enlarges or shrinks the view to show more or less of your document. It does not affect printing.
缩放功能会放大或缩小视图，以显示较多或较少的文档内容。打印不受影响。
In the longer term, it should strive to raise Japan’s trend rate of growth, which many reckon has fallen to about 1% a year from 1.5-2% previously, as the population shrinks.
许多人认为，随着人口的减少，其增长率已经从前年的1.5-2%下降到1%左右。
Demand for elderly care has increased by 9% over the past four years, and it is set to rise further as life expectancy climbs (while the proportion of the population of working age shrinks).
在过去的4年中，老年人护理的需求增长了9%。随着对生命期望的攀升，需求还将增长更多(而工作的人口比例在缩水)。
Reader's Digest offered two dozen doctors a chance to tell it like it really is, and general practitioners, surgeons, shrinks, pediatricians, and other specialists took the challenge.
读者文摘给24位医生提供了坦白的机会，其中包括全科医生，外科医生，精神病医生和儿科医生，还有其他的专家也参与了这次挑战。
Reader's Digest offered two dozen doctors a chance to tell it like it really is, and general practitioners, surgeons, shrinks, pediatricians, and other specialists took the challenge.
读者文摘给24位医生提供了坦白的机会，其中包括全科医生，外科医生，精神病医生和儿科医生，还有其他的专家也参与了这次挑战。
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