狭义

narrowing down───缩小；限制；减少；变窄

narrowing gap───窄隙；狭窄通路

burrowing blennies───穴居混合料

borrowing binge───借债狂欢

burrowing blenny───穴居

emotive meaning───感情意义

growing pains───发育期痛；青少年发育期的关节痛

comparison six months earlier (for the first half of 2009 vs. 2008) showed a 16 percent spread, meaning year-over-year price changes are narrowing.───比较08、09两年上半年能看出16%的变动，这意味着每一年价格的变化都在逐渐变小。

Third, it probes into the amplification and the narrowing ofthe meaning of words from the cognitive way basing on the research of semantic category and the semantic encoding.───最后，在语义分类和语义编码研究的基础上，从认知入手，深入探讨词义的扩大与缩小。