1.shrink to 收缩

Otherwise, they tend to shrink to a few diehards for whom meeting attendance has become a way of life.
不同的是，他们趋向于缩小成一小部分坚定分子，对于他们来说会议出席已经成为生活的一种方式。

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.
亲爱的心，了解这恒星飞船被赋予非凡的能力去收缩尺寸，从这尺寸上我们能够详细探索你身体转化的内外在。

2.hope for 希望， 希望得到

Detailed and public scrutiny and peer group pressure are the most we can hope for.
细致审查、公众监督、以及来自其他集团的压力，是我们所能企盼的最好结果。

You remain passive and convince yourself that you have nothing to hope for.
你消极被动，使自己确信你没有希冀的事。

3.account for 导致，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.
长期以来，哲学家们困惑于如何说明这些本质。
4.thanks to 幸亏， 多亏

That is largely thanks to its impressive mobile-money revolution.
实在多亏了肯尼亚引人注目的手机钱包改革。

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