They shrank from anything that disturbed their isolation: noises, moving objects, people, often even food.

他们逃避任何打扰他们独处的事物：噪音，活动的东西，人，通常甚至会是食物。

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The NASA pictures show how they shrank even further between 2005 and 2009 because of severe drought, and then increased in the summer of 2010 after the drought breaks.

NASA的卫星图片显示，2005年- 2009年间，由于连续的干旱，湖水日益枯竭。2010年夏，干旱结束后湖水水量才开始增加。

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They also admitted that Greece sank into recession earlier than they had announced: instead of growing by 0.3% in the first quarter, as claimed, the economy shrank by 0.5%.

他们还承认希腊早于他们宣布的时间陷入衰退：经济下跌了0.5%而不像第一季度声称的那样增长0.3%。

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And one after the other they either shrank or folded.

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By his count, on average the gap between where stock prices began and where Applied Finance figured they should be shrank 15% to 30% a year from 1998 to 2005.

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Since their boots shrank when they dried, troopers had to keep them on at night.

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