Its flagship stores in major U.S. cities depend heavily on international tourist spending, which shrank at many retailers due to a strong dollar.

它在美国主要城市的旗舰店在很大程度上依赖于国际旅游消费，由于美元走强，许多零售商的国际旅游消费出现萎缩。

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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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The bank narrowed its third-quarter loss as impairment losses on bad debts shrank.

该银行公布第三季度亏损金额减少，主要是因为坏账减值准备金有所下降。

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In the last quarter of 2009 year-on-year GDP shrank by 0.8%.

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The territory's first-quarter GDP shrank by 7.8% year-on-year.

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The laggard first-quartile companies, which reported that sales shrank on average by 3.4% a year over the period, included such problem children as 7-Eleven, Unisys and Owens-Illinois.

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