They shrank from anything that disturbed their isolation: noises, moving objects, people, often even food.
他们逃避任何打扰他们独处的事物：噪音，活动的东西，人，通常甚至会是食物。
The NASA pictures show how they shrank even further between 2005 and 2009 because of severe drought, and then increased in the summer of 2010 after the drought breaks.
NASA的卫星图片显示，2005年- 2009年间，由于连续的干旱，湖水日益枯竭。2010年夏，干旱结束后湖水水量才开始增加。
They also admitted that Greece sank into recession earlier than they had announced: instead of growing by 0.3% in the first quarter, as claimed, the economy shrank by 0.5%.
他们还承认希腊早于他们宣布的时间陷入衰退：经济下跌了0.5%而不像第一季度声称的那样增长0.3%。
Although its exports shrank, they have recovered quickly.
虽然出口下降了，但是他们恢复得还是很快的。
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。
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。
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