A few days later and the Moon is a crescent again, getting thinner.

几天后，月亮继续变窄。

Tapping keeps it from getting thinner, and it keeps it from breaking up.

轻敲可以防止它变薄，也可以防止它破裂。

I'm getting thin because I don't eat very much.

我变瘦了，因为我吃得不多。

She was slowly getting thinner again, shrinking back and back slowly to her shrivelly old self.

她又慢慢地变瘦了，慢慢地向后退缩，回到干瘪的老样子。

And its volume had shrunk faster still, to a quarter of what it was in 1979, for the sheet is getting thinner as well as smaller.

而且，冰盖的面积仍旧以越来越快的速度在减少，将来的面积仅仅只有1979年总面积的四分之一。因为冰盖正在越来越薄，也越来越小。

How could people say such mean things about him — say he was heartless and wicked and unfaithful to Scarlett, when she could see him getting thin before her eyes, see the torment in his face?

人们怎么会说他那么卑鄙的一些坏话呢？----说他冷酷无情，粗暴，不忠实，等等，可是她却眼看他在一天天瘦下去，脸上流露着内心的极大痛苦！她虽然自己已疲惫不堪，还是在设法要比往常对他更亲切一些，只要能见到他便告诉他一些病房里的最新情况。