My white shirt
shrank in the wash.
我的白衬衫缩水了
There is a shrinking demand for newspapers these years.
近年来，对报纸的需求越来越少。
He will not shrink from the battle.
他不会在战斗中退缩。
The sweater
shrank in the wash, and now it's too small for me.
这件毛衣洗后缩水了，现在对我来说太小了。
The company had to shrink its workforce due to financial difficulties.
由于财务困难，公司不得不裁员。
The economy is showing signs of shrinking as unemployment rates rise.
随着失业率上升，经济显示出萎缩的迹象。
The grass has shrunk back from the hot sidewalk.
草在炎热的人行道边缘萎缩了。
After a long day in the sun, the flowers began to wilt and shrink.
在阳光下度过漫长的一天后，花开始枯萎收缩。
The ice cube
shrank gradually as it melted in the glass.
冰块在玻璃杯中慢慢融化而变小。
The budget for the project was slashed, forcing us to shrink our ambitions.
项目预算被大幅削减，迫使我们降低了目标。
Her confidence seemed to shrink when she faced public speaking.
当她面对公众演讲时，她的自信心似乎减弱了。
The population of the town has shrunk by 10% over the past decade.
过去十年里，这个城镇的人口减少了10%。
The company's market share has shrunk significantly due to increased competition.
由于竞争加剧，公司的市场份额大幅缩水。
Oh, my gosh, they must have shrunk them in the wash!
天呐，他们肯定是用水洗导致衣服都缩水了！
The announcement came after the property market kept going downward, the gross profit margin continued to shrink and the foreign exchange market fluctuated, leaving the company with great challenges.
该公告发布之前，房地产市场持续下跌，毛利率持续萎缩，外汇市场波动，给公司带来了巨大挑战。
The loss came after the property market kept going downward, the gross profit margin continued to shrink and the foreign exchange market fluctuated, said the filing.
该文件称，亏损发生在房地产市场持续下跌、毛利率持续萎缩和外汇市场波动之后。
During the first 11 months, profits at manufacturing sector shrank by 13.4 percent, while profits of mining sector and industrial firms that offer the supply of electricity, heat, gas and water grew by 51.4 percent and 26.1 percent, respectively.
前11个月，制造业的利润下降了13.4%，而提供电力、热力、天然气和水供应的采矿业和工业公司的利润分别增长了51.4%和26.1%。
In terms of OLED supply, Samsung Display is expected to remain the top market player next year but its market share is expected to shrink with its dominant position challenged as Chinese panel manufacturers have entered the small and medium-sized OLED market, Omdia said.
Omdia表示，在OLED供应方面，预计三星显示器明年将继续是最大的市场参与者，但随着中国面板制造商进入中小型OLED市场，其市场份额预计将缩小，其主导地位将受到挑战。
Based on public information, the couple's stake in SOHO China would shrink to 9 percent if the deal succeeds.
根据公开的信息，如果交易成功，潘张二人在SOHO中国的股份将被稀释至9%。
Importantly, this new growth model will help China meet its pledge to shrink its carbon footprint by at least 65 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.
而且,这一新的增长模式将帮助中国实现到2030年时将碳强度较2005年水平降低65%以上的承诺。
Their combined market value shrank about 8.7 percent to 340 billion yuan in the first six months, a China Times report said citing data from Leju.
据《中国时报》援引乐居的数据报道,上半年两者市值合计缩水约8.7%至340亿元。
The United States remains the biggest market for the clothing retailer, while revenue from Asia continues to shrink and accounted for about 5 percent of the total, data compiled by Bloomberg showed.
据Bloomberg汇编的数据，美国仍是这家服装零售商的最大市场，而亚洲的收入持续萎缩，约占总营收的5%。
The US remains the biggest market for the clothing retailer, while revenue from Asia continues to shrink and accounts for about 5 percent of the total, data compiled by Bloomberg shows.
据Bloomberg汇编的数据，美国仍是这家服装零售商的最大市场，而亚洲地区的营收持续萎缩，约占总营收的5%。
Tan said the company has poured great efforts into the reform of its life insurance business, saying it is essential for the sustainable development of the business as demographic dividends of the country shrink.
他表示，公司已大力推动寿险业务改革，称鉴于中国人口红利缩小，这是业务可持续发展的必要条件。
The juice drinks segment, which has a larger share, is predicted to shrink both in value and volume.
Its global unit case volume shrank 16 percent, though showing trends of improving, from a decline of about 25 percent in April to a drop of about 10 percent in June.
The battery giant reported a 28.6-percent year-on-year growth in net profit in 2019, but its net profit shrank by 29.14 percent in the first quarter of 2020 from a year ago, due to the COVID-19 epidemic.
These policies helped enterprises tide over the hard time and survive when our sales channels shrank.
The company's estimated valuation shrank to about $7.8 billion from as much as $47 billion prior to the IPO.
Facing challenges arising from intensifying downward economic pressure and the further shrink in oil prices, the company vowed to uphold innovation strategies and promote high-quality development.
In November, the company's losses totaled $4.7 billion and its valuation shrank to about $7.8 billion.
The company's valuation shrank to about $7.8 billion.
Only two of the top 10 entrepreneurs saw their fortunes shrink, while the rest rose.
In the first eight months, profits of major Chinese companies shrank 1.7 percent year-on-year.
Both Boeing and Airbus have seen deliveries of their four-engine jumbo jets shrink in recent years as airlines prefer modern fuel-efficient twin-engine passenger jets.
Through technology, we can digitally shrink the distance between nodes of the supply chain, advance transparency and empower consumers.
The company spun off several businesses last year to generate cash and shrink its footprint.
However, the top three's wealth shrank compared to a year ago, with drops of $4 billion, $6.2 billion and $11.7 billion respectively.
Hui Ka Yan, chairman of Evergrande Group, leads the Hurun Property Rich List 2018 with 215 billion yuan ($31 billion), though his wealth shrank 17 percent.
"China's exports of textiles to the US are expected to shrink if the US tariff list targeting $200 billion worth of Chinese goods takes effect, Li Jie, an analyst at Everbright Securities, wrote in a research note.
The fundraising, which usually comes in at 10 percent of a company's valuation, shrank proportionally with its curtailed valuation, which fell from $100 billion to below $70 billion, according to local media reports.
Travel time from San Francisco to Shanghai, for example, could shrink from 11 hours to just 6 hours and a typical round-trip itinerary could be accomplished two full days faster, according to Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom.
A groundbreaking new cancer drug with the power to shrink tumours could soon provide an alternative to chemotherapy.
The company said Monday that it would moderately shrink the production capacity of middle-and-low-end liquor, enhance sales promotion and promote the integration of its liquor businesses.
With the market continuing to shrink in China, smartphone vendors, including Xiaomi, must contend with slower growth for their smartphone business as they begin to expand in other countries," said Xiang Ligang, CEO of telecoms industry website Cctime.
M&S will speed up plans to close 30 stores in the UK and relocate, or shrink, 45 others during the next five years.
Influenced by the market environment, funds for securities shrank to 2.2 trillion yuan, down by 547.2 billion yuan in the first nine months of this year, according to data from the Asset Management Association of China.
In an increasingly crowded field of places to eat, the number of McDonald's locations in the US is set to shrink for the third year in a row.
The report found that the relative contribution of Wanda's commercial property operations continued to shrink.
"She said the working population would continue to shrink.
Meanwhile, profits recorded by mining firms and manufacturing companies shrank 18.3 percent and 4.7 percent, respectively, in the first 11 months, compared to the 19.7 percent and 8.5 percent contraction in the first ten months.
Because of the rapidly aging domestic demographics, the economy's potential growth rate may indeed shrink during this process.
由于国内人口老龄化进程加快，经济的潜在增长率在此过程中确实可能下降。
The global economy will be affected and demand for commodities, which is closely related to production, will shrink.
Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, said that while the manufacturing PMI shrank in November, nonmanufacturing activity maintained expansion.
Meanwhile, profits recorded by mining firms and manufacturing companies shrank by 19.7 percent and 8.5 percent, respectively, in the first ten months, compared to the 19.9 percent decline and 10.1 percent contraction in the first nine months.
However, recovery signs seen amid series of supportive policy measuresChina's factory activity unexpectedly shrank in October after returning to expansionary territory the month before, official data showed on Tuesday, reflecting subdued demand and shoring up the case for further steps to consolidate recovery.
China's factory activity unexpectedly shrank in October after resuming expansion for the first time in half a year in September, official data showed on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, profits recorded by mining firms and manufacturing companies shrank by 20.5 percent and 13.7 percent, respectively, in the first eight months, compared to the 21 percent decline and 18.4 percent contraction in the first seven months.
Pork demand shrank during the period, leading to lower pork prices, according to the ministry.
During the January-July period, profits recorded by industrial firms that offer supply of electricity, heat, gas and water grew by 38 percent year-on-year, while profits recorded by mining firms and manufacturing companies shrank by 21 percent and 18.4 percent, respectively.
It is worth noting that China's exports in July declined 9.2 percent from a year ago to 2.02 trillion yuan while imports shrank 6.9 percent year-on-year to 1.44 trillion yuan, the data showed.
In particular, exports fell 9.2 percent from a year ago to 2.02 trillion while imports shrank 6.9 percent to 1.44 trillion yuan, according to the data.
Data from media group Caixin showed China's July factory activity shrank, pointing to mounting pressures facing the Chinese economy and raising the urgency for more steps to shore up the world's second-largest economy.
Softening demand still top impediment to healthier bottom-line performancesProfits of China's major industrial firms shrank at a slower pace in June thanks to supportive government measures to ease burdens on companies, though softening demand continued to squeeze margins.
During the first half, profits recorded by industrial firms that provide electricity, heat, gas and water grew 34.1 percent year-on-year, while profits recorded by mining firms and manufacturing companies shrank 19.9 percent and 20 percent, respectively.
Pig farmers accelerated pig processing during the period, while the demand shrank due to heavy rainfall and school holidays, leading to lower pork prices, according to the ministry.
The nation's export growth witnessed consecutive increases in March and April — by 14.8 percent and 8.5 percent year-on-year, respectively, and then shrank 7.5 percent in May, triggering concerns over China's foreign trade vitality.
In contrast, tourism-dependent states, such as Hawaii, saw the number of jobs supported by exports to China shrink by 69 percent, a loss of an estimated 1,900 jobs, according to the report.
China's manufacturing sector shrank further into contraction in May while non-manufacturing activity expanded at a slower pace, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Wednesday.
During the first four months, profits recorded by industrial firms that offer the supply of electricity, heat, gas and water grew by 34.1 percent year-on-year, while profits recorded by mining firms and manufacturing companies shrank by 12.3 and 27 percent, respectively.
Meanwhile, China's games market also shrank for the first time in years in 2022.
The gap between urban and rural areas shrank in terms of per capita disposable income and consumption.
Services imports stood at over 903.5 billion yuan, rising 21.6 percent from a year ago, while exports shrank 4.7 percent year-on-year to 680.51 billion yuan in the reporting period, resulting in a deficit of 222.99 billion yuan.
China's manufacturing sector shrank for the first time in four months in April while non-manufacturing activity expanded for the fourth straight month, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Sunday.
The combined wealth of these billionaires also shrank 10 percent year-on-year to come at $13.7 trillion.
Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos, who came at the fourth in the latest list, saw his wealth shrink 37 percent to $118 billion in 2022.
In its latest forecast, the research center expected Thailand's overall exports to shrink 0.5 percent year-on-year in 2023, but exports to China are likely to expand 3 percent or more from one year earlier, she said.
According to the bank's latest report, the contribution of private consumption to gross domestic product (GDP) shrank during the pandemic, but could now return to the pre-COVID-19 trend of growth.
According to data from consulting company Bain & Company, in 2020, global luxury goods' sales shrank 23 percent, but luxury goods consumption in China surged 45 percent.
By contrast, low performers (those with growth rates lower than the 25th percentile during the whole period) saw their revenues shrink by 3 and 5 percent per year during the two shorter periods.
At the same time, economic growth in the Nordic states will shrink by 0.5 percent this year and will grow by 0.9 percent next year, while the global economy will grow by 3.2 percent in 2023 and by 2.7 percent in 2024, the bank said.
Consumption growth has shown signs of stabilization as the year-on-year decline in retail sales shrank to 1.8 percent in December from 5.9 percent in November, NBS data showed.
Staying below the 50-point mark for the fifth straight month, the latest PMI reading indicates that manufacturing activity continued to shrink in December as COVID-19 outbreaks weighed on output and demand, Caixin said in a report.
China's manufacturing activity shrank for a fifth straight month in December, as COVID-19 outbreaks continued to weigh on both output and demand, a private sector pool showed on Tuesday.
"Both manufacturing supply and demand continued to shrink last month," Wang said.
Wang Zhe, a senior economist at Caixin Insight Group, said both manufacturing supply and demand continued to shrink last month due to the increasing COVID outbreaks.
Zhao Qinghe, a senior statistician with the NBS, said China's factory activity shrank in November amid renewed COVID-19 outbreaks and a more complicated and grimmer international environment.
Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, said November factory activity shrank amid slackening domestic and external demand, and the sharper slide in the nonmanufacturing sector was mainly affected by services disruptions due to COVID-19.
Earnings of China's major industrial firms shrank in the first 10 months, putting pressure on policymakers to step up policy support for sectors hurt by COVID-19 outbreaks and weak factory-gate prices.
While China's GDP growth rebounded to 3.9 percent year-on-year in the third quarter, economic activity faced renewed pressures in October as COVID-19 cases increased, retail sales shrank from a year ago and real estate development investment dropped at a larger rate, the National Bureau of Statistics said.
Sun Bin, who runs a teahouse in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, has seen business revenue shrink due to disruptions caused by the pandemic.
Hydropower output, however, shrank 30 percent year-on-year in September, while the output of nuclear power edged down 2.7 percent from the previous year.
Hydropower output, however, shrank 30 percent year on year in September, while the output of nuclear power edged down 2.7 percent from the previous year.
Profits at China's industrial firms shrank at a faster pace in the first nine months amid pressures from high costs and a grimmer, more complicated international situation, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday.
During the first nine months, profits recorded by mining firms and industrial firms which supply electricity, heat, gas and water grew by 76 percent and 4.9 percent respectively, while profits at manufacturing firms shrank by 13.2 percent.
Eastern China's per capita GDP shrank from 1.87 times western China's GDP in 2012 to 1.68 times in 2021.
The market value of US-listed Chinese companies including Pinduoduo and JD shrank by more than $20 billion.
The number of cities reporting year-on-year growth in new home prices shrank from 23 to 21, said Sheng Guoqing, chief statistician with the NBS urban division.
The decline in the mobile gaming sector has caused the gaming industry to shrink.
移动游戏领域的衰落导致了游戏行业整体规模的缩减。
Starting June, the Fed is scheduled to shrink its nearly $9 trillion balance sheet.
Profits at China's industrial firms shrank 8.5 percent year-on-year in April amid pressure from resurgent domestic COVID-19 cases and a more complicated and grimmer international environment, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.
Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, explained that China's industrial profits shrank in April as COVID-19 severely disrupted the supply, industrial and logistics chains, and high raw material prices also squeezed margins.
According to the bureau, profits in April shrank 8.5 percent from a year earlier.
根据该局的数据，四月份的利润比去年同期下降了8.5%。
In the city of 25 million, the number of residents under lockdown has continued to shrink and reached 790,000 (or around 3 percent), said Zhao Dandan, deputy director of the Shanghai Health Commission.
Huang Yiping, chairman of the academic committee of the China Finance 40 Forum, said the Fed's ongoing tightening could shrink global liquidity and pile on the pressure of capital outflows and currency depreciation on many developing economies.
As of Feb 15, the yield spread between Chinese and US 10-year Treasurys shrank 51 basis points from the end of last year to 74.5 BP, lower than the "comfort zone "spread of between 80 and 100 BP.
Disrupted by sporadic resurgences of COVID-19 and related regulatory measures, the market size of shared accommodation shrank 3.8 percent from a year earlier, said the report.
"Data from the Italian National Institute of Statistics showed that Italy's gross domestic product shrank by 8.9 percent in 2020.
Of the total, coal consumption growth in the third quarter shrank 13.1 percentage points from the first quarter and 2.8 percentage points from the second.
Education platform TAL's founder Zhang Bangxin saw his personal wealth shrink by 94 percent to 5.7 billion yuan, the biggest contraction this year.
Small manufacturers saw their activities shrink further last month, with their purchasing managers index readings dropping deeper within contraction territory, the NBS said.
New export orders shrank modestly in August due to logistics disruptions and the continued global pandemic, amid a broader decline in the total new orders accepted by manufacturers, the Caixin survey showed.
With the income gap expected to shrink, the ability of low-income groups to earn more money and increase their living standards will be significantly improved.
In addition, people expect that the supply of commodities will shrink, as China pledged that it would peak its carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.