Your massage therapist knows that your back muscles are tighter than the strings on a ukulele; your shrink knows that half your tension comes from stress.

你的按摩师知道你的背部肌肉比女高音尤克里里琴弦还紧；你的心理医生会说你的紧张有一半来自于压力。

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I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

我想知道的是你是否愿意与我一道，站在烈火中央而不退缩。

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I hasten to handle lightning shrink back, and my heart thought: well, my mother has a fever!

我赶忙把手闪电般地缩了回去，心里想道：不好，妈妈发烧了！

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The euro-area economy will shrink in back-to-back years for the first time, driving unemployment higher as governments, consumers and companies curb spending, the European Commission said.

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These are reducing returns earned by banks as well as forcing them to shrink their balance-sheets and cut back on trading.

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Though no one tracks the total number of noninvasive or minimally invasive surgeries across the board, medical device makers say the trend is similar for other types of surgery as well--be it to relieve back pain, implant coronary stents, or shrink the stomachs of very obese people.

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