dried-up

英 [draɪd ʌp]

美 [draɪd ʌp]

adj.  (人)干瘪衰老的，老态龙钟的

柯林斯词典

• See also:...her fears of becoming a dried-up old prune.dry up

英英释义

adj

• depleted of water
  1. a dried-up water hole
• (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
  1. dried-up grass
  2. the desert was edged with sere vegetation
  3. shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings
  4. withered vines
  Synonym:seresearshriveledshrivelledwithered

双语例句

• His skin was covered in a mixture of oils and resins and bathed in a solution of Natron, a salt found in dried-up river beds in Egypt.
  他的皮肤被涂上了一层油脂和松香制成的混合物，并浸泡在一种泡碱溶液里。这种泡碱是在埃及干涸的河床上发现的一种矿盐。
• The water resource demand increases and the over-exploitation of groundwater is serious, having led to lowering of groundwater level, sea water encroachment, and dried-up of spring water.
  水资源需求增大，地下水超采严重，出现地下水位下降、地面沉降、海水倒灌、泉水干枯等现象。
• Who shall say which is more ghastly, the sight of bleached skulls or of dried-up human hearts?
  谁又能说，枯萎的心灵和空无一物的骷髅，究竟哪一样看上去更可怕呢？
• We couldn't get there with vehicles, because there were dried-up watercourses, wadis, very deep, preventing vehicle access.
  我们没法开车去，因为有很多干涸的河道，旱谷非常深，车没法通过。
• The money raised will be used to dig bore holes to pump water into the dried-up lake.
  所筹资金将用于钻孔打水以抽水到干涸的湖中。
• Survival in this world is inseparable from generosity, without which we would perish and become dried-up from within.
  要想在世界上生存，必不可少的就是有慷慨无私之心，否则我们的心灵将会变得自私并且干涸。
• With resources of petroleum and natural gas in the world gradually exhausted, mankind will face a situation of dried-up oil-gas resources in the later 21st century, so it has become the aim of scientific community to seek clean and efficient new energy.
  随着世界上石油、天然气资源的日渐耗尽，人类在21世纪后期面临着油气资源枯渴的局面，因此寻求洁净高效的新能源成为科学界追求的目标。
• I can't think of anything more silly than someone talking to a bunch of dried-up, stupid, worthless leaves!
  我想不出哪个人比对一堆枯萎的，愚蠢的，没用的落叶说话更傻的人了！
• As the disease becomes heavy, the leaves colour turns yellow from green gradually. The leaves turn small. The wilting can not recover at night. At last, the leaves dried-up from the top to the bottom till the death of the whole plant.
  病情进一步严重时，叶色由绿渐变黄，叶片变小，发生永久性萎蔫，最后叶片自下而上逐渐干枯，直至全株死亡。
• With the development of economy and society, water-demand and water shortage situation increasingly, combined with unified management of river basin is very weak, the Yellow River water did not stop the dried-up problem from the fundamental solution.
  随着经济社会的发展，需水量不断增加，缺水形势越来越严峻，加之流域统一管理十分薄弱，黄河缺水断流问题并没有从根本上解决。