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
Littering makes the city look like a garbage dump.
随地乱扔垃圾使城市看起来就像个大垃圾堆。
There have been a lot of changes here in the last 20 years.
在这20年里这里有很多变化。
One night, the gaoler decided to play a joke on his colleague to find out if, after so many performances, he had managed to learn the contents of the letter by heart.
一天晚上，狱卒决定与他的同事开一个玩笑，看看他反复演出这么多场之后，是否已将信的内容记熟了。