Shrinking

例句:

• The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Do not mind shrinking openly from me, lady. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Shrinking to the furthest corner of the seat, he demanded to know what they wanted there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I don't know what you mean,' said Pleasant, shrinking a step back. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• To her parents she never talked about this matter, shrinking from baring her heart to them. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Each lady contributor takes it in her turn to keep the basket a month, to sew for it, and to foist off its contents on a shrinking male public. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He had again moved toward the door, and in her instinctive shrinking from him she let him regain command of the threshold. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• But Archer had found himself held fast by habit, by memories, by a sudden startled shrinking from new things. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I fancy, said Estella, shrinking that must be a curious place. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• There you were, Lina, at the casement, shrinking a little to one side in an attitude not unusual with you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The shrinking pit for assembling is situated between the heating furnace and oil tank. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It was no longer, however, from the vision of material poverty that she turned with the greatest shrinking. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It was a dreadful hour--an hour from which she emerged shrinking and seared, as though her lids had been scorched by its actual glare. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Oldacre gave an uneasy laugh, shrinking back from the furious red face of the angry detective. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• There had been something so tremendous in the shrinking off of the three, that the wretched man was willing to propitiate even this lad. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.

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