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。
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。
When the market has shrunk too much, it will accumulate the momentum for spontaneous recovery, Yu added.
余补充道，当市场萎缩过多时，它将积累自发复苏的动力。
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。
At the beginning of 2020, due to the dual impact of the COVID-19 epidemic and the plunge in oil prices, the global consumption of petroleum and petrochemical products shrunk sharply, resulting in the company's operating losses in the first half of 2020, said Sinopec.
受新冠肺炎疫情和国际油价断崖式下跌的双重影响，全球石油石化产品消费出现萎缩，公司2020年上半年经营业绩出现亏损，中国石化如是说。
"Huawei's sell-in shipments during the fourth quarter of last year shrunk by nearly 50 percent sequentially, despite huge demand for Huawei devices, as the company is not able to fulfill the demand in the foreseeable future. "
尽管华为设备的需求巨大，但由于公司无法在可预见的未来满足这种需求，去年第四季度的销售出货量环比下降了近50%。
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 number of financing rounds shrunk to 305 this year, but 50 billion yuan has been invested so far, he said.
他说，今年融资轮次减少到305起，但投资额已达500亿元。
The CCIID report also said the market for most of home appliances has shrunk and sales fell in the first half of the year.
Investment in land shrunk 64 percent year-on-year.
The juice drinks segment, which has a larger share, is predicted to shrink both in value and volume.
Alibaba will stick to exploring and developing overseas businesses, an official from the company's innovation business said, as media reported the company has shrunk its content globalization strategy.
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.
Only two of the top 10 entrepreneurs saw their fortunes shrink, while the rest rose.
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.
"While international capital flow has shrunk, plus the uncertainty the Sino-US trade friction has brought to the global economy, China still remains popular for foreign investors. "
Through technology, we can digitally shrink the distance between nodes of the supply chain, advance transparency and empower consumers.
Bill Gates was second with a net worth of $96 billion and the legendary investment guru Warren Buffett took third place as his wealth shrunk 14 percent to $88 billion this year.
The company spun off several businesses last year to generate cash and shrink its footprint.
This is the first time that his fortune has shrunk since he first made it onto the list in 2005.
This is the first time that his fortune has shrunk since he made into the list in 2005.
"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 immersive land is designed to allow guests to experience being shrunk down to the size of their favorite Toy Story toys in the backyard of Andy, the boy from the movie.
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.
But the market value dropped to 19.8 billion yuan in 2015 and further shrunk to 19.79 billion yuan in 2016, according to Euromonitor International, a market research firm.
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.
The immersive land is designed to make guests feel being shrunk down to the size of their favorite Toy Story toys in the backyard of Andy, the boy from the movie, Shull told a media briefing in Shanghai.
M&S will speed up plans to close 30 stores in the UK and relocate, or shrink, 45 others during the next five years.
The market share of Samsung in China has shrunk to 3.3 percent from 8.6 percent last year, slipping to sixth place behind its Chinese competitors and Apple.
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.
In the six trading days before Wednesday, Moutai's cumulative drop reached 6.76 percent, and its market value shrunk by more than 40 billion yuan.
The labor force has also shrunk, with the latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics showing that the nation's working population — between the ages of 16 and 59 — was about 875.6 million by the end of 2022, accounting for about 62 percent of the total population but down by 6.66 million from the previous year.
"She said the working population would continue to shrink.
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.
"Policy space has shrunk but is not fully exhausted.
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.
Investment into China's real estate development, for example, shrunk by nearly 10 percent year-on-year in 2022, and is expected to post negative growth this year.
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.
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.
Nevertheless, as manufacturing activity has shrunk for six straight months, there is a need to step up policy support for domestic demand and smaller businesses, experts said.
A rise in COVID infections nationwide shrunk the number of people at work, keeping the subindex of employment in contraction territory for the 10th month running.
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.
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.
"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.
Sun Bin, who runs a teahouse in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, has seen business revenue shrink due to disruptions caused by the pandemic.
Their total wealth has also shrunk 18 percent year-on-year to 24.5 trillion yuan.
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.
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.
First, the ongoing global COVID-19 outbreak meant international investment markets have shrunk, with overseas investors urgently seeking high-quality investment targets and opportunities.
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.
The size of the average household in China has shrunk by almost 30 percent over the past 20 years, reflecting falling total fertility and the fact that people are tending to delay marriage and have children later－three years later－among other influences.
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.
If we further shrink supply of commodities, it obviously won't be good for stabilizing China's economy and commodity prices.
What's more, the price surge has not shrunk demand－import volumes kept growing through the period of soaring prices.
The white paper showed 36.6 percent of respondents plan to expand their Chinese businesses in the next one to two years, while the proportion of companies planning to shrink their businesses only accounted for 6.7 percent.
Meanwhile, demand for crude oil has shrunk, causing a slide in oil price.
"In such a scenario, personal assets would shrink and mortgage loans would not be repaid," he said.
As the world economy has suffered a recession, international demand has shrunk sharply; the domestic epidemic prevention and control situation is still tight; the foundation for a full economic recovery is not yet solid; so, companies are facing insufficient orders and rising ocean shipping costs.
Tax revenues have shrunk quite substantially," Gaspar said, calling such fast and strong fiscal actions "absolutely necessary" to help contain the pandemic and to avoid a financial crisis.
As a result, the dollar will likely continue to trade well above the fundamentals and both the interest rate differential and the growth differential with the rest of the developed world have shrunk from pre-COVID-19 levels.
Kharas also said that without China's contribution, the world economy would have shrunk by 5.7 percent last year versus the current figure expected by the WB, according to the report.
Meanwhile, there will be space for local governments to shrink the issuance of special bonds, an instrument focusing on infrastructure construction financing, to control potential risks of local governments' contingent liabilities, he said.
The world economy will shrink by 4.2 percent this year as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to exert a substantial toll on economies and societies, according to the OECD report.
"The US GDP will grow by 3.2 percent in 2021 and 3.5 percent in 2022 after seeing a 3.7 percent contraction in this year, whereas the eurozone's will shrink 7.5 percent in 2020, before growing by 3.6 percent and 3.3 percent in the next two years, the report said.
However, those advantages shrink and eventually disappear as the economy develops, and become more complicated," he said.
But as of November, the difference between the sub-gauges for production and new market orders has shrunk for five consecutive months to 0.8 percentage point, according to the NBS.
African countries' sovereign bonds are struggling to find buyers, and foreign direct investment has shrunk by a quarter so far.
The International Monetary Fund has forecast the US economy will shrink by 4.3 percent and China's economy will grow at 1.8 percent this year.
The IMF forecast global economic growth will likely shrink by 4.9 percent this year.
With the continued downturn of the world economy, global trade has also shrunk severely.
According to a WTO forecast, global trade will shrink by 13 percent this year.
The WEO report showed that global trade volume is on track to shrink by 10.4 percent this year, followed by an 8.3-percent rebound next year, which seems to be in line with weakened global demand, she noted, adding that trade restrictions so far haven't been an important factor in the contraction of global trade.
Global output is projected to shrink by 4.4 percent, 0.8 percentage point above its June forecast.
New export orders for the services sector have shrunk for three consecutive months as of September, and the contraction has deepened from a month earlier, according to the Caixin survey.
The UN agency also warned that global trade will shrink by about one-fifth this year and foreign direct investment flows by up to 40 percent.
High-speed trains that connect Beijing to Zhangjiakou have shrunk travel time from four hours to about an hour.
Since early this year, the manufacturing sector of major economies such as Europe and the United States has continued to shrink.
The supply-demand gap for strategic emerging minerals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel continues to shrink, the report said.
Sinopec and CNOOC, however, saw first-half profits shrink amid lower oil prices and low fuel demand.
But the investment proportion will shrink regularly and the annual investment growth will slow down over the five-year forecast period.
China Market Research estimates China's child-related products and services market, which includes education, is worth about $500 billion now, and is expected to shrink 15 percent to 20 percent in the next five years.
But since the 1980s, its chip industry has been suppressed by the United States and has gradually shrunk.
But since the 1980s, Japan's semiconductor industry has been suppressed by the US and has gradually shrunk since then.
Caused by growing inflationary pressure, high energy prices and excessive goods supplies, Lin said, demand from overseas consumers has shrunk since the beginning of this year.
Taking a 30-year fully amortized loan of 1 million yuan for example, the monthly payment will shrink about 207 yuan as the interest rate is lowered from 4.6 percent to 4.25 percent, according to Yan's calculation.
In the first three months of this year, the new housing construction area in the country shrunk 17.5 percent year-on-year.