I had only enough money left to take the city bus once, so my job-search area shrank.

我口袋里的钱只够乘坐一次公共汽车了，所以找工作的范围也因此缩窄。

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Then, he said, evaporation would slow down as the surface area shrank, and the water level would stabilize.

然后，水的蒸发和水表面积缩小都会变缓，最后水位会趋于平衡。

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Figures released on August 14th showed that the euro-area economy shrank at an annualised rate of 0.8% in the second quarter, the first such reverse since 2001.

8月14日发布的数据显示，欧元区经济第二季度缩水率达到了年均0.8%，这是自2001年以来欧洲经济首次如此大幅缩水。

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Figures released on August 14th show that the euro-area economy shrank in the second quarter (see article).

ECONOMIST: The world economy

The most fragile economy in the rich world is that of the troubled euro area, where GDP shrank by 0.2% (an annualised decline of 0.7%) in the second quarter, leaving it 0.4% smaller than a year earlier.

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According to JPMorgan, the economy in Britain probably shrank at an annual rate of 5.9% in the fourth quarter, the euro-area by 5%, and Japan by a heart-stopping 9%, in a country with no housing bubble or banking crisis.

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