Contractionary
a. （如以抑制消费增长等方式）引起经济萎缩（或紧缩）的
🗣️ 情景例句
I don't want to sound like a busybody, but didn't you plan to go abroad?
我并不想瞎打听，可你原来不是打算出国吗？
I asked him to go to the store, but he wouldn't
我请他去商店，但是他不肯。
After switching on powerful arc lights, they saw great stalagmites -- some of them over forty feet high -- rising up like tree-trunks to meet the stalactites suspended from the roof.
他们打开强力弧光灯，看见一株株巨大的石笋，有的高达40英尺，像树干似地向上长着，与洞顶悬挂下来的钟乳石相接。