The fabric shrinks when exposed to high heat, so it's important to follow the care instructions carefully.
这种布料在高温下会收缩，所以必须仔细遵循洗涤说明。
After washing, she had to hang the clothes to prevent excessive
shrinkage.
洗完后，她得把衣服挂起来以防止过度缩水。
The gardener noticed that the soil was prone to
shrinkage during dry spells.
园丁注意到土壤在干燥时期容易收缩。
In baking, flour often undergoes a process called "hydration
shrinkage" as water is absorbed.
烘焙中，面粉常常因为吸收水分而经历"吸水收缩"过程。
The
shrinkage of glaciers due to climate change is a major concern for scientists.
由于气候变化，冰川的消融是一个科学家们关注的重大问题。
The company experienced financial
shrinkage after a series of unsuccessful investments.
公司经过一系列失败的投资后，遭遇了财务紧缩。
Her confidence seemed to shrink in proportion to her workload.
她的自信心随着工作量的增加而减少。
The economist predicted a period of economic
shrinkage if the trade war escalated.
经济学家预测如果贸易战升级，将有一段经济衰退期。
The leather jacket required special treatment to prevent
shrinkage in cold weather.
皮夹克需要特别处理以防止在寒冷天气中收缩。
The athlete's muscle mass didn't shrink significantly after a week of rest and recovery.
运动员在一周的休息和恢复后，肌肉并没有显著缩小。
Qudian has to make a transition when faced with shrinkage of its core business and huge operational pressure, said Jiang Han, a senior researcher at market consultancy Pangoal, adding the goal of opening 10,000 stores will not be easy as the large-scale offline expansion means a large amount of capital input.
市场咨询公司Pangoal的高级研究员蒋涵表示，面对核心业务的萎缩和巨大的运营压力，趣店不得不转型。他补充道，开设10000家门店的目标并不容易，因为大规模的线下扩张意味着大量的资金投入。
He listed factors such as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that might have caused a lag in investment data, bearing in mind the long cycle of investors' investment decisions, geopolitics and the overall shrinkage in the scale of global FDI, which fell to $1.3 trillion in 2022, down by about 12 percent year-on-year, according to UNCTAD data.
He said countries need to clearly set boundaries on "decoupling" to avoid significant compliance costs and the "shrinkage effect" due to increased uncertainties.
Under certain circumstances, it may lead to drastic shrinkage and even unemployment in some economies and some industries.
US gross domestic product is forecast to expand 3.5 percent in 2021, after an estimated 3.6 percent shrinkage in 2020, according to the World Bank.
ASML said earlier that it expects sales in China to remain flat at 2.2 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in 2023, implying relative shrinkage as the company expects overall sales to grow by 25 percent.
While the global order book on hand was nearly halved in volume in 2020 from 2014, many Chinese shipbuilding enterprises experienced a shrinkage in orders the past two years, reaching their lowest level since 2008, CANSI said.
中国船舶工业行业协会（CANSI）指出，尽管相较于2014年，全球手持订单量在2020年几乎减半，但许多中国造船企业过去两年内的接单量却持续萎缩，已降至自2008年以来的最低水平。
The report also said in terms of products, most of the home appliances experienced different degrees of market shrinkage and suffered a fall in sales in the first half of the year.
Meanwhile, shrinkage in passenger transport further narrowed, with the subindex of passenger transport down 43.1 percent, narrowing by 6.1 percentage points from May.
Meanwhile, shrinkage in passenger transport further narrowed, with the subindex of passenger transport down 49.2 percent, narrowing by 12 percentage points from April.
The report said the increase in operational cost and decline in the sales premium rate led to the shrinkage of profitability.
The FDA announced on Friday Beijing time its Accelerated Approval of the drug for treatment of adult patients with mantle cell lymphoma who have received at least one prior therapy, based on the overall response rate or how many patients experience a complete or partial shrinkage of their tumors after treatment.
The FDA said 84 percent of patients had tumor shrinkage with a median duration of response (time between the initial response to therapy and subsequent disease progression or relapse) of 19.5 months, in a single-arm clinical trial of Brukinsa including 86 patients with MCL who received at least one prior treatment.
The trial was supported by an additional single-arm trial that included 32 patients, in which 84 percent of patients had tumor shrinkage with a median duration of response of 18.5 months.
The accelerated approval is based on overall response rate, or how many patients experience a complete or partial shrinkage of their tumors after treatment.
In the trial, 84 percent of patients had tumor shrinkage with a median duration of response (time between the initial response to therapy and subsequent disease progression or relapse) of 19.5 months.
In January, 1.61 million passenger cars were sold, seeing a monthly decrease of 27.4 percent and a shrinkage of 20.6 percent year-on-year.
The China Insurance Regulatory Commission released policies to improve regulation of auto insurance market in July 2017, leading to shrinkage of the online business.
In the future, the figure is still unlikely to witness significant and sustained shrinkage as the US will continue to increase fiscal deficits and utilize the exorbitant privilege to generate investment returns and mitigate the damage to the US dollar's creditworthiness caused by excessive trade deficits.
Given this backdrop, a wave of mortgage prepayments will lead to shrinkage in the balance of mortgages and upset the rhythm of banks' allocation of funds," Ye said.
Since the beginning of this year, the 10-year US Treasury yield has seen a continuous rally, moving upward from less than 1 percent at end-2020 to above 1.7 percent as of April 2, representing an 85 percent rebound and leading to a shrinkage of 73 basis points in the 10-year China-US Treasury yield spread.
But the demand for accident insurance, which relates closely to tourism and outings, saw an obvious decline, resulting in the shrinkage of the internet accident insurance market.
Usually, staff members choose to quit a job after obtaining a year-end bonus, so a company's workforce shrinkage often happens in the first half of the year, and the company will recruit more in the second half.
He noted that although it is good to raise awareness of counterparty risk management in the long run, the market is still concerned about whether or not it will cause a rapid shrinkage of interbank financing, investment and lending in the short term for the reason that a rapid and forced shrinking of banks' balance sheets may trigger systemic risk or have an unexpected economic impact.
In breakdown, the value of funds investing in securities expanded 11.6 percent to 2.36 trillion yuan after months of shrinkage, due to the strong performance of the A-share market.
While using targeted measures to boost the vitality of small, private businesses, Yi reiterated that overall liquidity will be maintained at "a reasonable level" to avoid fast credit shrinkage while refraining from indiscriminate easy credit.
"The shrinkage of the current account surplus will be a constraint on the policy stance with regard to capital opening in general and financial outflows in particular," said Louis Kuijs, head of Asia Economics at Oxford Economics.
The shrinkage of the balance sheet in the first quarter is mainly influenced by seasonal and fiscal factors while the balance sheet in April turned into expansion, the PBOC added.
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