She was still shrinking and shrinking and she didn't know why.

她还在不停地变小，但她不知道为什么。

You have to see your opportunity and take it, nobody respects a shrinking violet.

必须看到你的机遇并抓住它，没有人尊敬羞怯的人。

I did. You told me to stop being a shrinking violet and to step up.

我谈了啊。你告诉我不要做一个羞怯的人，要挺身而出。

Alice had learned a lot about growing and shrinking in Wonderland.

在仙境里学到了变大和变小的事情。

After all her growing and shrinking, Alice was exactly the same size as the rabbit.

在她经历的这几次长大和变小之，兔子一模一样大。

The incredible shrinking iPod earned Apple a parody on " Saturday night live" .

iPod体型不可思议越来越小，《周六夜现场》对此恶搞了下苹果。

Then there's compressions like taking a word and shrinking it down.

然还有将一个单词缩短。

Generally, a shrinking GDP for two quarters in a row constitutes a recession.

一般情况下，国内生产总值在两个季度内连续下降就意味着经济衰退。

But with age, your brain and the grey cells start shrinking.

但随着年龄的增长，你的大脑和灰细胞开始萎缩。

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

Yasuyuki Nambu建造了这个农场，部分原因是为了提高人们对日本日渐萎缩的农业产业的认识。

Decades later, the chance of elderly families seeing one another again are rapidly shrinking.

几十年，老人们再次团聚见面的机会在迅速减少。

In parts of the globe, the human population is already, or will soon be, shrinking.

在世界上的一些地方，人口数量已经或即将开始减少。

That's a huge shift, and such body ideals continued shrinking.

是个巨大转变，而这种理想化身体继续变得更苗条。

Japanese society is shrinking and aging so fast its future survival is at stake.

日本社会正在萎缩，老龄化速度加快，未来整个国家的生存都陷入危险。

As the centuries passed, the rock cooled and hardened, shrinking and cracking into long columns.

随着几个世纪的过去，岩石冷却和硬化，收缩并开裂成长柱。

Facing the sea, people couldn't help but sigh over the shrinking availability of natural resources.

站在海岸线上总会有资源将尽的感慨。

The picture showed that the Arctic's thick ice is shrinking.

张照片显示，北极厚厚的冰层正在缩小。

Because shrinking plays out at different rates for different species.

因为体型缩小对不同物种的影响速度不同。

When faced with a difficult situation, a shrinking violet seems to get smaller.

当面对困难时，一个羞怯的人似乎变得更渺小了。

Another adjective to describe a shrinking violet is modest.

另一个形容羞怯的形容词是" modest" 。