shrivel
英 [ˈʃrɪvl]
美 [ˈʃrɪvl]
v. (使)枯萎,干枯,皱缩
过去式:shrivelled 过去分词:shrivelled 现在分词:shrivelling 第三人称单数:shrivels 复数:shrivels
Collins.1 / BNC.15916 / COCA.16142
短语动词
shrivel up
1. (使)枯萎;(使)干枯;(使)皱缩
牛津词典
verb
- (使)枯萎,干枯,皱缩
to become or make sth dry and wrinkled as a result of heat, cold or being old- The leaves on the plant had shrivelled up from lack of water.
因为缺水,植物的叶子已经枯萎了。 - The hot weather had shrivelled the grapes in every vineyard.
天气炎热,各家葡萄园的葡萄都蔫了。
- The leaves on the plant had shrivelled up from lack of water.
柯林斯词典
- V-ERG (使)枯萎;(使)干枯;(使)皱缩
When somethingshrivelsor when somethingshrivelsit, it becomes dryer and smaller, often with lines in its surface, as a result of losing the water it contains.- The plant shrivels and dies.
植物干枯而死。 - ...dry weather that shrivelled this summer's crops.
造成今夏作物枯萎的干旱天气 - Shrivel upmeans the same asshrivel.
shrivel up 同 shrivel - The leaves started to shrivel up.
叶子开始枯萎。
- The plant shrivels and dies.
in AM, use 美国英语用 shriveling, shriveled
英英释义
verb
- decrease in size, range, or extent
- His earnings shrank
- My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me
- wither, as with a loss of moisture
- The fruit dried and shriveled
双语例句
- Then their seed ripens, and soon they turn brown and shrivel up.
随后,它们的种子熟了,不久就变枯萎。 - Private colleges have seen their endowments and investment income shrivel because of the financial crisis, while public colleges have had funding cut by cash-strapped state governments.
由于经济危机的缘故,私立大学的捐助资金和投资收入都减少了。 - Were he now to back away from his UN bid, his clout among his own people would shrivel.
如果他现在在联合国的入联申请中逐步后退,他在他自己人民当中的声望将会急剧下降。 - We should worry as much, or more, about the tendency of authorities to give a wink and a nod to anti-competitive practices during a downturn as about the survival of companies that are anyhow due to shrivel in a world of innovating entrepreneurs.
我们既应担心那些本来就会在创新的企业家世界中枯萎的企业的生存,也应担心(甚至更加担心)政府倾向于在经济低迷时期默许甚至赞同反竞争行为。 - Why do you always seem to shrivel up when we meet new people at parties? You can't avoid them for ever.
为什么你总是在联欢会时怕见生人呢?你不可能永远避开他们。 - Of course, managers have to be able to say yes too, otherwise their organisations would shrivel up and die.
当然,经理也必须能说“是”,否则他们的组织将枯萎死亡。 - Dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture.
由于完全失去了水分而干瘪皱缩。 - In a variety of contemporary culture, folk art as the most national characteristics and local spirit of creation, it not only failed to shrivel, but more snowy fragrant, showing its mystery and meaning.
在当代各种文化的冲击下,民俗艺术作为最具民族特色和本土精神的创造,它不但没有凋谢飘零,反而更加艳丽芬芳,显现着它的奥秘和真谛。 - The specific root length ( SRL) of shrivel brown was the highest among the pigmentation roots in first-order, the second was brown roots, white and yellow roots was smaller.
在1级根中,褐色皱缩细根比根长最高,褐色根次之,白色和黄色根比根长较低。 - The seeds shrivel under their clods; The storehouses are desolate, The barns are torn down, For the grain is dried up.
珥1:17谷种在土块下朽烂.仓也荒凉、廪也破坏.因为五谷枯乾了。