It comes down to how long the economy contracts.

区别其实取决于经济缩持续的时间。

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

就像没有锻炼的肌肉缩一样，沟通技巧也会受到孤立的影响。

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

比起培养一个缩的贸易，这更可能会产生反作用。

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

所以即使我们的缩，我们仍然保有 32 颗牙齿。

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

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

I'm at a Band 6 and he's got a Band 7 and he's got a Band 7 and she got her Band 7.5 and you think everybody else is progressing and you're stuck on your own here and your confidence shrivels up.

我是 6 分水，他得了 7 分，他得了 7 分，她得了 7.5 分，你认为其他人都在进步，你却原地踏步，你的信心缩了。

My body started shrinking, my voice got a lot softer and started getting really frustrated about this new self that for some reason is coming back to me and this is my 15-year-old self when I knew him in middle school.

我的身体始缩，我的声音变得更，始对这个新的自我感到非常沮丧，因为某种原因，这个新自我又回到了我的身边，这是我 15 岁的自己，我在中学认识他的时候。

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

作为最后的选择，软缩的人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，新冠肺炎的救助款正在资助规模不断缩的学校。

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

尤其是在大城市外，日本劳动力的缩使情况雪上加霜。

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

死海的缩已经被死海复兴计划记录了多年。

There's less global cooperation as aging, shrinking countries, they lose the willingness and ability to think about causes outside their borders and fund those.

全球合作变得更少，因为老龄化、人口缩的国家丧失了思考资助其它国家事物的意愿能力。

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

我记得我挪动他的小腿，试图不让他的肌肉缩。

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个季度的GDP缩。

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年以来最快的速度缩。

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

没有抗肌缩蛋白的支撑，肌膜塌缩变得不稳定。

Up until now, treatments for spinal muscular atrophy were given after birth.

到目前为止，治疗脊髓性肌缩症的药物都是在婴儿出生后才服用。

The forecast is a downgrade from the 1.6-percent contraction predicted in June.

这一预测较六月份预测的缩1.6%有所下降。

Researchers think this may be due to the fact that the hippocampus shrinks as we age, which is the region of the brain that stores these types of memories.

研究人员认为，这可能是由于海马体会随着年龄的增长而缩导致的。海马体是脑中存储这些类型回忆的区域。

And the ALS ice bucket challenge has now reached presidential levels.

现在肌缩侧索硬化症的冰桶挑战活动已经到达了总统级别。