It comes down to how long the economy contracts.

区别其实取决于经济萎缩持续时间。

Just as muscles atrophy without exercise communication skills suffer from isolation.

就像没有锻炼肌肉萎缩一样，沟通技巧也会受到孤立影响。

Instead of nurturing a dwindling trade, this could have the opposite effect.

比起培养一个萎缩贸易，这更可能会产生反作用。

So as our jaws shrank, we still kept all 32 teeth.

所以即使我颌骨萎缩，我仍然保有 32 颗牙齿。

Yasuyuki Nambu built the ranch partly to raise awareness about Japan's shrinking farm industry.

Yasuyuki Nambu建造了这个场，部分原因是为了提对本渐萎缩业产业认识。

The doctors found she had a shrunken liver and an enlarged spleen.

医生发现她肝脏萎缩，脾脏增大。

As a last resort, people with withered cartilage can even undergo full joint replacements.

作为最后选择，软骨萎缩甚至可以进行全关节置换。

Across the U.S., COVID-19 relief money is helping fund shrinking schools.

在美国各地，新冠肺炎救助款正在资助规模不断萎缩学校。

Factory output in America surprisingly contracted in August for the first time in three years.

令惊讶是，美国8月份工厂产量出现了三年来首次萎缩。

Japan's shrinking labour force doesn't help, especially outside big cities.

尤其是在大城市外，本劳动力萎缩使情况雪上加霜。

The shrinking dead sea has been documented for years by the dead sea revival project.

死海萎缩已经被死海复兴计划记录了多年。

I remember moving his tiny legs to try to keep his muscles from withering.

我记得我挪动他小腿，试图不让他肌肉萎缩。

The euro-zone economy has just endured a sixth successive quarter of shrinking GDP.

欧元区经济已经撑过了连续6个季度GDP萎缩。

Another way to fix the shrinking workforce is to add more legal immigrants.

解决劳动力萎缩另一个方法是增加更多合法移民。

Italy's service industry shrank last month at its fastest rate in more than 22 years.

上个月，意大利服务业以22年以来最快速度萎缩。

Now, the beautiful desert area is in ruins beside the shrinking, salty lake.

现在，美丽沙漠地区在萎缩咸水湖旁边变成了废墟。

Without the support of dystrophin in place, the sarcolemma essentially wilts and becomes unstable.

没有抗肌萎缩蛋白支撑，肌膜塌缩变得不稳定。

Babies with severe disease don't usually live past their third birthday.

患有严重脊髓性肌萎缩症婴儿通常活不过三岁。

Well, it means we're in a sustained period of economic contraction.

这意味着我处于持续经济萎缩期。

Britain has posted the biggest economic contraction reported by any major economy so far.

英国公布了迄今为止主要经济体中最大经济萎缩幅度。