drying up

英 [ˈdraɪɪŋ ʌp]

美 [ˈdraɪɪŋ ʌp]

n.  擦干(厨具、餐具等)

柯林斯词典

• 擦干(厨具、餐具等)
  When you dothe drying up, you dry things such as plates, pans, knives, and cups after they have been washed.

in AM, use 美国英语用 drying

英英释义

noun

• the process of extracting moisture
  Synonym:dehydrationdesiccationevaporation

双语例句

• Researchers at the unit say climate change is to blame for rivers drying up and species migrating to new habitats, causing changes in ecosystems.
  该部门的科学家说气候变化是造成河流干涸以及动物迁徙到新的栖息地的原因，这导致了生态系统的变化。
• Reservoirs are drying up and farmers have begun to leave their land
  水库逐渐干涸，农民开始背井离乡。
• At the cost of overdraft resources and damage ecology to develop economy for a long time, natural resource is drying up and ecology environment has become the stiff factor to restrain sustainable development in northeast old industrial base.
  由于经济建设长期以透支资源和破坏生态为代价，东北老工业基地自然资源正逐步走向枯竭，生态环境成为制约其可持续发展的刚性因子。
• Order books are drying up.
  订单正逐渐枯竭。
• But rubber trees are thirsty, reducing the water content in soil and drying up streams and wells& and deforestation to make way for rubber plantations is releasing huge amounts of carbon.
  但是橡胶树需要很多水，这会减少土壤中的水，让河流与水井干涸。而砍伐森林改为橡胶种植园正在释放大量的碳。
• Credit from foreign banks is drying up
  外资银行的放贷金额持续萎缩，面临枯竭。
• To allow the closure of the fastest growing companies is not a loss, cash flow is drying up.
  让企业最快倒闭的亏损，是现金流枯竭。
• Modern agricultural biotechnology makes great importance on some social issues such as food security, drying up of resources and environment deterioration.
  现代农业生物技术在缓解全球粮食安全、资源枯竭、环境恶化等一系列重大问题中发挥了极其重要的作用。
• For most of us, a bad conference experience means drying up at the microphone.
  对于我们大多数人来说，一次糟糕的会议经历无非是指在话筒面前忘词。
• 01 The deepest wells in a dwarf city are slowly drying up.
  01矮人城市中最深的那口井郑渐渐枯竭。