Income inequality usually falls during a recession, but it has not shrunk in this one.

在经济衰退期间，收入差距通常会缩小，但这次却没有。

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Benjamin: I see. The woolen sweater shrunk in the wash.

本杰明：哦，羊毛衫洗后缩水了。

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There was some practical validity to this; apparently the lake had shrunk in size in the last thirty years.

这一让步具有一定实际操作的可能性，因为在过去30年间这个湖的面积明显在缩小。

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Britain's economy may have shrunk by 1% just in the final 3 months of last year.

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As we'll talk about later in the class, the biodiversity has shrunk so what used to be hundreds of varieties of corn is now just a few.

像我们后面所要提到的,玉米种群的生物多样性已经从曾经的,几百种减少到了现在的几种

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The biodiversity has shrunk for various reasons of profitability and as a consequence of that things like corn crops, and the orange crops in Florida are particularly susceptible to certain environmental conditions, certain pests, and certain types of blight.

生物多样性的减少源自利益的驱动,和玉米一样,佛罗里达的柑橘作物很容易受到,一定环境条件的影响,还有虫害和枯萎病

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Not only has it shrunk in size but also in importance and in influence.

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Since the autumn of 2010 the UK has shrunk in three quarters and grown in two.

BBC: Britain's zig-zag economy

Consumers could get whiplash from the way phones and tablets have grown and shrunk in size in recent years.

CNN: Do people really want a smaller iPad?