
英:/'ʃrʌŋk/ 美:/'ʃrʌŋk/
v. 收縮(shrink的過去分詞)
The tumour had shrunk to the size of a pea.
腫瘤已縮小到豌豆大小。
The vast forests of West Africa have shrunk.
西非那片廣袤的森林已經縮小了。
Television in a sense has shrunk the world.
從某種意義上說電視把世界縮小了。
There was a movie called 'Honey I shrunk the kids!'.
有部電影名叫《寶貝兒,我把孩子們縮小了!》。
As his political stature has shrunk, he has grown correspondingly more dependent on the army.
隨着政治聲望不斷降低,他相應地變得更依賴于軍隊了。
shrunk 是英語動詞shrink 的過去分詞形式,主要含義指物體或抽象概念在尺寸、體積、數量或範圍上變小、收縮、縮減。它強調一種因外力或内在變化導緻的縮小結果狀态。以下是其詳細解釋與應用場景:
指物體物理尺寸的縮小,常由外部因素(如熱、水、壓力)引起:
例:羊毛衫在熱水中洗滌後嚴重縮水(The wool sweatershrunk drastically in the hot wash)1。
例:高溫使塑料瓶收縮變形(The plastic bottleshrunk and deformed under high heat)2。
描述規模、價值或數量的減少:
例:通貨膨脹導緻消費者購買力縮減(Inflation hasshrunk consumers' purchasing power)1。
例:幹旱使湖泊面積縮小(The lakeshrunk to half its size during the drought)3。
表示因恐懼、尴尬而主動回避或退縮:
例:他在人群中畏縮不前(Heshrunk back from the crowd in fear)2。
源自中古英語 schrinken,與古高地德語 scrimban(皺縮)同源,最初描述物理收縮現象,後延伸至心理與經濟領域3。
參考資料:
“shrunk”是動詞“shrink”的過去分詞形式,主要含義為“收縮、縮小”或“退縮”。具體解釋如下:
物理收縮
指物體體積、尺寸因環境(如高溫、潮濕)而減小。例如:
The wool sweater shrunk after washing.(羊毛衫洗後縮水了。)
心理/情感退縮
描述因恐懼或緊張而回避行為。例如:
He shrunk back when he saw the spider.(他看到蜘蛛時退縮了。)
經濟/數值減少
用于數據、市場規模等抽象概念的降低。例如:
The company’s profits have shrunk by 20% this year.(公司利潤今年縮減了20%。)
語法補充:
常見搭配:shrunk fabric(縮水布料)、shrunk market(萎縮市場)、shrunk confidence(信心減弱)。
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