Budgets have shrunk, a situation that only worsened with the recent recession.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

As we'll talk about later in the class, the biodiversity has shrunk so what used to be hundreds of varieties of corn is now just a few.

像我们后面所要提到的,玉米种群的生物多样性已经从曾经的,几百种减少到了现在的几种

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The biodiversity has shrunk for various reasons of profitability and as a consequence of that things like corn crops, and the orange crops in Florida are particularly susceptible to certain environmental conditions, certain pests, and certain types of blight.

生物多样性的减少源自利益的驱动,和玉米一样,佛罗里达的柑橘作物很容易受到,一定环境条件的影响,还有虫害和枯萎病

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Somalia's years of turmoil has left it with a very limited pool of educated professionals, a pool which has now shrunk even further.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

In the last three decades the lakes have shrunk to less than half of their original size.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16