recoil/cower/flinch/shrink.导航词义：退缩

1. recoil:v. 退缩，畏缩.指因不喜欢或害怕某物而突然向后退，常用于 recoil from sb/sth 或recoil at sth 结构中。

She recoiled in horror at the sight of a snake.

她一看见蛇就吓得往后缩。

Why did he recoil from her touch?

为什么她一碰他，他便往后缩？

We shouldn't recoil in the face of difficulty.

遇到困难我们不应该畏缩不前。

She recoiled in horror when she saw the state he was in.

看到他那个样子，她吓得直往后缩。

2. cower:v. 退缩，畏缩.指因害怕而蜷缩，常后接介词 against/under。

The little boy would cower under the table when there was lightning.

一有闪电，这个小男孩就蜷缩到桌子底下。

His father cowered against the wall.

他父亲蜷缩在墙根儿。

His dog was cowering in a corner.

他的狗蜷缩在角落里。

3. flinch:v. 退缩，畏缩.指由于疼痛、害怕或烦恼而退缩或躲开，常用于 flinch at sth 或 flinch away from sb/sth 结构中。

Separated from his mother for such a long time, the boy flinched away from her when she tried to give him a hug.

由于分开了太长时间，当妈妈想拥抱他时，小男孩退缩着躲开了。

He flinched at the sight of the dog.

他一见到那条狗就往后退。

4. shrink:v. 退缩，畏缩.尤指因恐惧而退缩，通常后接副词 away/back。

The thief shrank back against the wall when he heard the police approaching.

听到警察朝这边走过来，小偷退到墙根儿。

The king's anger made his ministers shrink away from him.

国王大发脾气，大臣们纷纷退避。

She shrank away from his touch.

她往后一缩避开了他的触摸。

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1·I've seen a shrink already.

我已经看过了精神病医生。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·All wood tends to shrink.

所有的木头都会收缩。《牛津词典》

3·If you give up exercise, your muscles shrink and fat increases. By the same token, if you expend more energy you will lose fat.

如果你放弃锻炼，肌肉就会萎缩，脂肪会增多。同样地，如果你消耗较多的体能，你就会减掉脂肪。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Woollen fabrics shrink in the wash.

毛织物一洗就缩水。

5·How much must we allow for the shrink?

要留多少缩水长度？《新英汉大辞典》

6·This cloth will not shrink in the wash.

这布不缩水。《新英汉大辞典》

7·The economy is forecast to shrink by around 8% this year.

预计今年经济将萎缩8%左右。

8·After years of good growth, the economy will shrink this year.

经过多年的良好增长，今年的经济将会萎缩。

9·There are recent signs that the gap could be starting to shrink.

最近有迹象表明，这一差距可能开始缩小。

10·Let us act and not shrink for fear our motives be misunderstood.

让我们行动起来，不要因为担心我们的动机遭到误解而退缩。

收缩

1·All wood tends to shrink.

所有的木头都会收缩。《牛津词典》

2·After initially growing, the cloud began to shrink.

在最初膨胀之后，云团开始收缩。

3·So if credit contracts further, high-end spending also will shrink.

因此一旦信贷进一步紧缩，高端支出也会收缩。

4·It stabilizes the jaw so the bone doesn't shrink and make your face look older.

这样可以稳定上下颌，这样骨头就不会收缩使你的脸看起来很老。

5·However, compress, repack, and shrink operate at the row level; the defragmenter operates at the extent level.

然而，压缩、重新打包、和收缩在较低级别运行；碎片整理程序在区段级别运行。

缩小

1·There are recent signs that the gap could be starting to shrink.

最近有迹象表明，这一差距可能开始缩小。

2·Yet there are recent signs that the gap could be starting to shrink.

然而，最近有迹象表明，这一差距可能开始缩小。

3·The financial sector's share of the economy will shrink, and stay shrunk for years to come.

金融部门在经济中所占的份额将会缩小，并在未来几年里继续缩小。

4·Our hope is that if we feed blueberry juice to a child with this type of tumour, we can intervene and shrink the tumour before it becomes a big problem.

我们的希望是，如果我们给患有这种肿瘤的儿童喂蓝莓汁，我们就能在其成为大问题之前进行干预并缩小肿瘤。

5·The proposed budget includes more than $1 billion in cuts that will shrink the police department through attrition, have halted some ambulance shifts, and have suspended plastic and glass recycling.

拟议的预算包括超过10亿美元的削减，这将通过减员来缩小警察部门的规模，已经停止了一些救护车的班次，并暂停了塑料和玻璃回收。

萎缩

1·If you give up exercise, your muscles shrink and fat increases. By the same token, if you expend more energy you will lose fat.

如果你放弃锻炼，肌肉就会萎缩，脂肪会增多。同样地，如果你消耗较多的体能，你就会减掉脂肪。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·After years of good growth, the economy will shrink this year.

经过多年的良好增长，今年的经济将会萎缩。

3·Finally, the bone supporting the teeth is attacked and starts to shrink.

最后，支撑牙齿的骨头损坏，开始萎缩。

4·If the economy starts to shrink again, Baily says, it would make a strong case for a second stimulus—something the Obama administration hopes will not be necessary.

贝利说，如果经济再次开始萎缩，就有充分的理由实施第二次刺激方案——奥巴马政府希望他们不必这样做。

5·The brains of those with mild cognitive impairment shrink twice as fast.

轻度认知障碍者的脑萎缩速率为正常人的二倍。

缩水

1·This cloth will not shrink in the wash.

这布不缩水。《新英汉大辞典》

2·In the next few years, the nation's wealth will either stagnate or shrink.

在接下来的几年里，这个国家的财富不是停滞就是缩水。

3·As the underlying collateral declines in value and incomes shrink, the real burden of debt rises.

随着潜在的抵押品价值减少和收入缩水，真正的债务负担开始上升。

4·Bank failures would take out capacity, jobs would go and bonuses would shrink.

银行倒闭会破坏产能，工作机会会减少，红利也会缩水。

5·In 1998, the labor force started to shrink, and a decade later, the country's population began to decline.

到了1998年，劳动力人数开始缩水，并且十年之后，国家人口数开始下降。

缩

1·If you want to capture a large old fort, you must have a lot of cannons to deal with the enemies who shrink in the castle.

如果你想攻占一个大型的旧式堡垒，你必须要有很多大炮来对付那些缩在城堡中的敌人。

2·Slower export growth and stronger domestic spending will cause China's current-account surplus to shrink below 5% of GDP in 2010, less than half its peak in 2007.

出口增长放缓和国内消费增强将会使中国的经常帐户盈余在2010年缩至不足gdp的5%，这还不足2007年峰值的一半。

3·By using metal mold casting, we can control mold temperature, infusing temperature, infusing speed to avoid defects of pore, cold partition, shrink and loose.

采用金属型立式浇铸，严格控制铸造工艺参数(模具温度、浇注温度、浇注速度)，以避免气孔、缩松、冷隔等缺陷的产生。

4·I hasten to handle lightning shrink back, and my heart thought: well, my mother has a fever!

我赶忙把手闪电般地缩了回去，心里想道：不好，妈妈发烧了！

5·Small white into the warehouse, and immediately shrink starting from a neck looked around to find.

小白猫进了库房，立刻缩起自个的脖子四下里寻找。

退缩

1·Yes, our duty on the shoulders of every youth, if we look to the new century, the entire nation, and the construction of homeland, we will not shrink.

是的，责任放在我们每个青年的肩上，放眼新世纪，振兴中华，建设家乡，我们是不会退缩的。

2·If you're seeing a shrink, you might want to sit down and talk through the results, jokes Charnock.

“如果你看到了退缩，你可能会想要坐下来谈谈这个结果，”Charnock开玩笑说。

3·I reject the belief that we should either shrink from the challenge of globalization, or fall back on the same tired and failed approaches of the last eight years.

我绝不苟同一些人的想法：要么我们在全球化挑战面前退缩，要么沿袭过去8年中陈腐失败的方案。

4·I do not shrink from this responsibilities; I welcome it.

在这份责任面前我不会退缩，我会欢迎它。

5·I'll never shrink to love you!

我永不退缩地爱你！

畏缩

1·Nor shrink from the whips of the terrible hail.

也不要畏缩于冰雹的暴戾。

2·She turned to leave and I noticed the shrink of her shoulders.

她转身离开了，我看见她畏缩的双肩。

3·In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it.

在世界历史的长河里，只有少数几代人被赋予了在自由面临最大危机时捍卫自由的使命，我不会畏缩于这一责任——我欢迎它！

4·Lots of things, are easy to be done, do not shrink, just to get more confidences.

其实很多事情，都很容易办的，不要畏缩，给自己点自信就行。

5·When she was younger, she would shrink away from me whenever I spoke to her.

她年轻的时候，每当同我讲话，她就会畏缩。

(1)shrink from退避；在…前面畏缩

(1)shrink into oneself缩成一团；变得沉默

(1)shrink film收缩薄膜

(1)shrink fit烧嵌；热配合；冷缩配合

(1)shrink wrap收缩包裹；热缩塑料包