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。
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。
Based on public information, the couple's stake in SOHO China would shrink to 9 percent if the deal succeeds.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The juice drinks segment, which has a larger share, is predicted to shrink both in value and volume.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
Because of the rapidly aging domestic demographics, the economy's potential growth rate may indeed shrink during this process.
The global economy will be affected and demand for commodities, which is closely related to production, will shrink.
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.
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.
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.
The decline in the mobile gaming sector has caused the gaming industry to shrink.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"In such a scenario, personal assets would shrink and mortgage loans would not be repaid," he said.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Such factors have caused sales to shrink.
Meanwhile, coal imports continued to shrink.
- China's raw coal output posted fast growth in the first two months of 2022, while coal imports continued to shrink, official data showed.
"Many gold miners face declining output as reserves shrink and given the falling ore grade.
But if regulators are eager to achieve quick results, their radical moves will cause the financial environment for the real estate industry to worsen rapidly and the industry's liquidity to shrink sharply and quickly.
It is inevitable to see the transaction volume shrink after a number of emitters finished purchasing the amount they need.
- The TV market in China continued to shrink in May, according to an industry report published by the market research institute GfK.
The country's total installed power-generating capacity is expected to reach 2.37 billion kW by the end of this year, up 7.7 percent on a yearly basis, with coal's share in energy consumption to further shrink this year.
This first pillar-dominated structure must be reformed in the coming decades, experts said, as government-run pensions rely on contributions from the working-age population to fund the retired, while the size of the former is destined to shrink in relation to the latter amid rapid demographic changes.
China's industrial robot market continued to shrink in 2019 but remained the world's largest for the seventh straight year, the China Robot Industry Alliance (CRIA) announced on Monday.
The demand will not shrink," Zhang said.
Favorable policies spur transformation as profit margins for generic drugs shrinkPharmaceutical enterprises from home and abroad are stepping up efforts in innovative drug research and development as the domestic innovation environment constantly improves and profit margins for generic drugs gradually shrink, said industry experts.
At the end of 2019, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway began operation, and it has helped shrink travel time to the resorts from four hours of driving to about one hour.
BYD said in a statement that the provision was "crafted by special interests and competitors to shrink the US electric bus market by targeting BYD, one of only three major manufacturers of electric buses in the United States.
High-speed trains will soon connect Beijing and Zhangjiakou, and shrink travel time from four hours to about one hour.
The demand for steel in the real estate sector, however, may shrink as investment slows and construction declines.
Corn output for the period is expected to shrink 0.7 percent year-on-year to 257 million tons, while consumption will rise 5.5 percent to 285 million tons, according to a report by the Chinese Agriculture Outlook Committee, an advisory body under the ministry.
Oil consumption in emerging economies across Asia, such as China and India, which account for roughly two-thirds of global oil demand, is expected to shrink due to a projected slowdown in economic growth.
According to Xu, the steel prices could surge further in the fourth quarter as supplies shrink further due to the production curbs.
And the time and distance between any two fuel outlets could shrink substantially as they mushroom all over.
Volkswagen, though still the best-selling carmaker in China, is seeing its market share shrink.
The sharp fall led to fears that the world's largest vehicle market since 2009 might shrink this year, but such sentiment has been dispelled by rosy prospects for production and purchases after the worst April in a decade for the industry.
Cui said: "The middle part will continue to grow, but I don't think the cheaper mini and small-sized market will shrink in the short term, as there is still a big customer base in smaller cities.
The restructuring comes as the Japanese marque is seeing its sales shrink in the increasingly competitive Chinese market.
"AlixPartners, a global consulting firm, said earlier that production volume worldwide would shrink by 3.9 million units in 2021 because of the chip shortage.
In spite of this, while China's motoring market continues to gather speed in recovery, Nissan last month saw its business shrink 2.4 percent after showing modest growth every month since April.
Chinese carmakers have had to shrink or suspend their overseas businesses as a result.
In the passenger car sub-sector, medium and high-end brands will likely fare well during the second half, while the demand for low-end cars will further shrink, leaving some manufacturers financially troubled, Fu said.
When the stimuli disappear, sales may shrink.
An industry association warned last week that car sales in Italy, Europe's third-largest economy, could shrink by more than 15 percent.
Latest statistics from the CAAM show that China's auto sales fell for the 17th consecutive month in November and sank 3.6 percent from a year ago to 2.46 million vehicles, putting the market on track to shrink for a second year.
China's passenger car sales continued to shrink in August, data from an industrial association showed Monday.
Market demand for green cars is likely to shrink in the short run, said Lu Fuyong from the University of International Business and Economics, noting that uncertainties still exist concerning the great amount of capital attracted by the fast-rising NEV market and whether it will stay active or not as the green car market levels off.
James Yan, research director at Counterpoint Technology Market Research, said considering the political headwinds, Huawei may need to shrink some businesses and focus its investment on key products and services offerings, such as the operating system, supply chain products, 5G and the smart vehicle business.
A study conducted by global consultancy KPMG has predicted a decline in the frequency of accidents so that within 25 years, the personal auto industry could shrink to 40 percent of its current size.
The EU5, the company's first model to adopt this new system, has all-day battery technology, which enables the battery heat time to shrink from 80 minutes to six minutes at under 30 C. The company said the large power charging system will halve the charging time of the previous system.
The EU5, the company's first model to adopt this new system, has all-day battery technology, which enables the battery heat time to shrink from 80 minutes to six minutes at under 30 C. The company said the large power charging system will cut the charging time of the previous system by 50 percent.
"Black technologies" of the new Darwin system includes an all-day battery technology, which enables the battery heat time to shrink from 80 minutes to six minutes at under 30 degree centigrade.
Li said the sales were partly the result of some discounts at dealerships and it is hard to predict how the sales would be later this year, but a reassuring message for carmakers and dealers is that demand for imported models made in the US did not shrink immediately.