If you give up exercise, your muscles shrink and fat increases. By the same token, if you expend more energy you will lose fat.

如果你放弃锻炼，肌肉就会萎缩，脂肪会增多。同样地，如果你消耗较多的体能，你就会减掉脂肪。

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In the scene where Mickey tries therapy, we love it when Mickey tells his rhino shrink, "I grew up behind the walls of a one-room hellhole in the ghetto."

在米奇尝试各种疗法的场景中，我们喜欢米奇抱怨他自己钱财短缺：“我从小就住在贫民区，那是一个脏兮兮的地方，只有一间房间。”

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They can prod Banks with taxpayer guarantees to shrink their risks and to build up capital buffers to absorb losses.

中央银行可以借用纳税人们降低风险，提供缓冲资本来减少损失的承诺来激励银行。

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It was, in many ways, the mirror image of 1981, when a newly inaugurated Reagan used the combination of stagnating economic growth and skyrocketing inflation to promote an equally ambitious, simple agenda: cut taxes, shrink government and build up the defense budget.

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The proof-of-concept computer won't give silicon circuits any threat when it's running at just 0.15Hz and takes up as much space as a mini fridge, but the hope is to dramatically speed up and shrink down future iterations to where there are advanced computers that occupy the same size as real muscles.

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The lesson from the Asian crisis of the late 1990s is that systems generally shrink after a blow-up.

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