shrink

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n. 收缩, 萎缩, 回避 vi. 收缩, 退缩, 萎缩, 缩小, 回避 vt. 使收缩, 使缩小

发音

AU /ˈʃɹɪŋk/

词形变化

shrinks 复数 shrinks shrank shrankest shrinked shrinkest shrinketh shrinking shrinks 三单 shrunk shrunken shrinking 现在分词 shrank 过去式 shrunk 过去式 shrunk 过去分词 shrunken 过去式 shrunken 过去分词

别名

shrinke

教材释义与例句

名词

收缩；畏缩；<俚>精神病学家

动词

收缩；畏缩

动词

使缩小，使收缩

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.

  2. 2.

    A psychiatrist or psychotherapist.

    贬义 俚语

    You need to see a shrink, you crazy fool.

    My shrink said that he was an enabler, bad for me.

  3. 3.

    Loss of inventory, for example due to shoplifting or not selling items before their expiration date.

    不可数 商务
v. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    To cause to become smaller.

    及物

    The dryer shrank my sweater.

  2. 2.

    To become smaller; to contract.

    收缩

    缩

    缩水

    不及物

    This garment will shrink when wet.

  3. 3.

    To cower or flinch.

    不及物

    Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.

  4. 4.

    To draw back; to withdraw.

    及物
  5. 5.

    To withdraw or retire, as from danger.

    比喻 不及物
  6. 6.

    To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.

    不及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

psychiatrist headshrinker

上位词 1

specialist

下位词 3

analyst psychoanalyst alienist
动词

同义词 10

contract reduce funk wither quail flinch recoil shrivel cringe wince

反义词 1

stretch

上位词 6

move fall decrease diminish lessen minify

下位词 10

contract blast reduce reef desolate flex retract degrade atrophy downsize

相关短语

shrink away shrink up shrink back 退[畏]缩, 害怕; 退却 shrink down shrink rate shrink rates shrink ray shrink rays grocery shrink ray heat shrink

词源

From Middle English schrynken, from Old English sċrincan, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Cognate with Dutch schrinken (“to shrink”). The sense “psychologist, psychotherapist” is a clipping of head-shrinker.

来源：wiktionary