Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.

在过去的25年英语报纸所发生的变化中，影响最深远的可能就是它们对艺术方面的报道在范围上毫无疑问的缩小了，而且这些报道的严肃程度也绝对降低了。

The beauty of the island is unveiled as diminishing distance shows you in distincter shape its lovely peaks, but it keeps its secret as you sail by, and, darkly inviolable, seems to fold itself together in a stony, inaccessible grimness.

当距离逐渐缩小，美丽的峰峦形状愈加真切时，莫里阿岛的美丽便完全呈现出来，但是在你的船只从它旁边驶过时，你会发现它仍然重门深锁，把合为一堆人们无法接近的阴森可怖的巨石，没有人能闯入它那幽森的奥秘中去。

For the same reason, he placed the chairs close to each other and raised the temperature to a slightly uncomfortable level.

出于同样的原因，他缩小了观众席的座之间的距离，把温度高到了一种会让人感到稍微不适的水平。

A gallant British officer helped the royals escape from Austria, a turbulent and shrunken republic with no taste for the finery of the past.

皇室在一勇敢的英国官员的帮助下逃离了奥地利，这个动荡的、日益缩小的共和国已没有了旧时的优雅品。

Just under a year ago, he appeared at a public lecture in a wheelchair to announce that he was suffering from a variant of motor-neurone disease, in which the body succumbs to inexorable paralysis: like being imprisoned in a shrinking cell, he said.

就在一年前，他出现在公共演讲庭，坐在轮椅上告诉别人，现如今正被不同种类的动态神细胞病变所折磨，这是一种将身体蹂躏成麻痹状态的病：感觉像困兽般被囚禁在一个不断缩小的牢笼中，他坦言到。

Dobby plucked at the shrunken maroon sweater he was now wearing over his shorts.

多比拉了拉他穿在短裤上面的那个缩小了的暗紫色红色毛衣。

And as that happens, it's slowly shrinking your circle.

当这种情况发生时，它正在慢慢缩小你的圈子。

It didn't include everything teachers wanted, like an amendment that would reduce class sizes in Arizona.

它没有包括老师想要的所有东西，比如一项在亚利桑那州缩小班级规模的修正案。

Narrowing your criteria, for example, may work against you: “Every time you answer a question you eliminate a possibility.” says one expert.

比如缩小你的要求条件就有可能对你不利。某专家说：“你每回答一次问题你就丧失一次机会。”

If we were to shrink you to the size of an ant and you touch water it would be like you were reaching into glue.

如果我们把你缩小到蚂蚁的大小，再让你碰水，那就像碰到一团黏胶。

Her foreshortened figure rushed away from him; the diminishing square of the roof seemed to be falling through the darkness.

她那因透视而缩小的身姿急速离他而去。房顶那越来越小的方形似乎落进了黑暗里。

Her mission, to close the gender gap in aviation.

她的使命是缩小航空领域的性别差距。

By searching a public data base of DNA, genealogists can work backwards in a family tree narrowing the search for a suspect.

通过搜索公开的 DNA 数据库，系谱学家可以在家谱中反向工作，缩小对嫌疑人的搜索范围。

In photolithography, we take electromagnetic radiation, or what we tend to call light, and we use it to shrink down some of that circuitry, so that we could cram more of it into a really small space.

在光刻法里，我们使用电磁辐射，或者，我们更倾向于叫光，我们用它来缩小电路的一些部分，这样我们可以在一个非常小的空间里塞进更多的电路。

Each piece of information narrows down your options.

每条信息都缩小了你的选择范围。

Sadly, in the twentieth century the great port of Manham declined and thousands of workers were forced to emigrate out of the area.

遗憾的是，二十世纪时，Manham港口规模缩小，数以千计的工人不得不出海迁往别处。

The child was playing on the floor with his collection of miniature farm animals.

孩子在地板上玩着他收集的缩小的农场动物。

Its steeped form reduces in size and tops out unevenly around a central spire.

它陡峭的外形缩小了体积，顶部围绕着一个高低不平的中央尖顶。

These shrinking mics have given actors the flexibility to be more naturalistic in their performances.

这些缩小的麦克风让演员们在表演中更加然。

The thing that we leaned back was zooming in and looking at color specifically, but then zooming back out to a different altitude of, does this feel like it's cohesively mimicking what you would see in the real world?

我们把向后倾斜的东西放大并专门去查看颜色，然后再缩小到不同的高度，这感觉像是在连贯地模仿你在现实世界中看到的东西吗？