Shrink

(verb.) become smaller or draw together; 'The fabric shrank'; 'The balloon shrank'.

(verb.) reduce in size; reduce physically; 'Hot water will shrink the sweater'; 'Can you shrink this image?'.

(verb.) decrease in size, range, or extent; 'His earnings shrank'; 'My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me'.

整理:朱莉安娜

• But I must not shrink from a professional duty, even if it sows dissensions in families. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Fred felt an awkward movement of the heart; he had not thought of desk-work; but he was in a resolute mood, and not going to shrink. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Also--Sir Leicester seems to shrink in the shadow of his figure--also, to take a seat, if you have no objection. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It was best that it should shrink and hide itself. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Don't shrink from anything I say. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• As I shrank away from such a visitor, he came forward and seized my candle. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Her simple little fancies shrank away tremulously, as fairies in the story-books, before a superior bad angel. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But tonight every fibre in her body shrank from Lily's nearness: it was torture to listen to her breathing, and feel the sheet stir with it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Miss Bart shrank from it slightly, and then flung herself into precipitate explanations. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• St. Clare was at last willing to call in medical advice,--a thing from which he had always shrunk, because it was the admission of an unwelcome truth. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He shrunk behind the curtains, and called out very loudly-- 'Ha-hum! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• If that were so, my sacrifice was nothing; my plainest obligation to her unfulfilled; and every poor action I had shrunk from, I was hourly doing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• There was hair upon the end, which blazed and shrunk into a light cinder, and, caught by the air, whirled up the chimney. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• If he were ever a big old man, he has shrunk into a little old man; if he were always a little old man, he has dwindled into a less old man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Do not mind shrinking openly from me, lady. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Shrinking to the furthest corner of the seat, he demanded to know what they wanted there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I don't know what you mean,' said Pleasant, shrinking a step back. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• To her parents she never talked about this matter, shrinking from baring her heart to them. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Who feels injustice; who shrinks before a slight; who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Compress t he large vein entering the heart, and the part intervening between the point of constriction and the heart becomes empty and the organ pales and shrinks. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He, too, shrinks from them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• His heart, exhausted by his early sufferings, reposes like a new-healed limb, and shrinks from all excitement. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She shrinks from it as from something unholy, and such thoughts never found a resting-place in that pure and gentle bosom. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• They surrounded the shrunken empire of Constantinople on every side. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is let off in sets of chambers now, and in those shrunken fragments of its greatness, lawyers lie like maggots in nuts. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He then presented himself in a refulgent condition as to his attire, but looking indefinably shrunken and old. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He almost thought that shrouds were for the old and shrunken; and that they never wrapped the young and graceful form in their ghastly folds. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• This accumulation would be at the expense of the sea, whose surface would thus be further shrunken in comparison with the land. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

校对:南森