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shrank [ʃræŋk]

I . shrink <过去式 shrank or shrunk, 过去分词 shrunk or shrunken> [ʃrıŋk] VB intr

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II . shrink <过去式 shrank or shrunk, 过去分词 shrunk or shrunken> [ʃrıŋk] VB trans

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dial-a-shrink N

Usage examples with shrank

He shrank from admitting his guilt.
他畏缩不敢认罪。

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Such loans soon shrank to a pittance as double-digit inflation raged, while leaving deposit owners with mere remnants of their savings.
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Amazingly, after two nights of sleep normality, my little toe promptly shrank back to a normal size, with nearly all the redness and pain gone.
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Year, after year, though, as advances came in mechanization, rationalization and automation, the number of quarrymen and quarrywomen shrank.
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He stirred the proletariat to unworthy acts beyond the law; although he nobly shrank from the excess, he accepted the results.
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He used much of these surpluses to pay down the national debt, which shrank from $63 million in 1853 to $25 million in 1857.
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The construction sector shrank by 46.8% during the first 3 quarters of 2009 and the slump in retail trade was almost 30%.
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The edges of the shield were bound with stitched rawhide, which shrank as it dried improving structural cohesion.
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The 1973 oil crisis, however, put the brakes on this ambitious expansion when the demand for fuel-hungry sports cars shrank.
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As the standing rows on the entire northern, the lower eastern and the lower western grandstands were converted into seats, the capacity shrank to 42,800.
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Immediately after the depression of the 1890s, the population shrank to half this size, but recovered by mid the 1950s almost to its peak level.
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