1.shrink to 收縮

Otherwise, they tend to shrink to a few diehards for whom meeting attendance has become a way of life.
不同的是，他們趨向于縮小成一小部分堅定分子，對于他們來說會議出席已經成為生活的一種方式。

Dear hearts, know that this starship is endowed with the marvelous ability to shrink to a size from which we can explore in great detail the interior and the exterior of your transforming body.
親愛的心，了解這恒星飛船被賦予非凡的能力去收縮尺寸，從這尺寸上我們能夠詳細探索你身體轉化的內外在。

2.hope for 希望， 希望得到

Detailed and public scrutiny and peer group pressure are the most we can hope for.
細致審查、公眾監督、以及來自其他集團的壓力，是我們所能企盼的最好結果。

You remain passive and convince yourself that you have nothing to hope for.
你消極被動，使自己確信你沒有希冀的事。

3.account for 導致，引起

Do women account for more of today's affairs?
如今女性在婚外情中所占比例是不是更大？

Philosophers had long wondered how to account for essences.
長期以來，哲學家們困惑于如何說明這些本質。
4.thanks to 幸虧， 多虧

That is largely thanks to its impressive mobile-money revolution.
實在多虧了肯尼亞引人注目的手機錢包改革。

Pornographers are in bigger trouble, thanks to technology.
由于科技的作用，色情作品作者將陷入更大的麻煩。