Within 10 years, the portfolios would shrink to insignificance.

在十年里，它们的抵押贷款规模会缩减到微不足道的地步。

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And why didn't it shrink to become a dwarf, as so many of the other dinosaurs on islands did?

而为什么它没有缩小为矮恐龙，就像岛上的许多其他恐龙一样呢？

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To achieve the necessary economies of scale, that must shrink to two or three, he reckons.

他认为为了达到了必要的规模经济，它们必须整合到2到3个厂家。

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Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund expect the world economy to shrink this year for the first time since World War Two.

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Satan and the fallen angels are entering the magnificent structureof Pandemonium, and at one instant all of the angels shrink in order to fit in to the building, however big it is.

撒旦和堕落天使们正在进入,混战地狱绝妙的建筑中去，突然，所有的天使们都缩小了身形,以来进入那栋建筑中。

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He notes: When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or arm and when it does fall we feel it in some measure and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.

他说过，当我们看到有人要打,别一个人的腿或手臂，我们会不由自主的畏缩，手脚拢起来,当这一下打下来，某种程度上来说,我们会感受到和被打者一样的疼痛。

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