| 释义 |
contraction /kan'traskjn; kan'traekfan/ n 1 [U] contracting or being contracted: 收缩; 缩小： the ~ of a muscle; 肌肉的收缩; the ~ of the mercury in a thermometer. 水银在寒暑表中的收缩。 2 [C] sth contracted; shortened form, as can't for cannot. 收缩之物; 缩写式 (如 can't 为 cannot 的缩写式) 。 |