shrivelled的中文翻译是什么意思

shrivelled

US/ˈʃrɪvld/

v. (因热力,严寒、干燥、年老等而)枯萎,皱缩( shrivel的过去式和过去分词 ); 瘪; 干巴; 干瘪

shrivelled柯林斯释义

V-ERG(使)枯萎;(使)干枯;(使)皱缩

When something shrivels or when something shrivels it, 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

shrivelled英文释义

Adjective

1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;

  • dried-up grass
  • the desert was edged with sere vegetation
  • shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings
  • withered vines

2. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness;

  • the old woman's shriveled skin
  • he looked shriveled and ill
  • a shrunken old man
  • a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie
  • he did well despite his withered arm
  • a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair

3. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity;

  • our shriveled receipts during the storm
  • as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled
  • the dollar's shrunken buying power

shrivelled场景例句

Some of them carried pikes with shrivelled heads on top.

他们中一些人手持枪尖上挂着皱缩人头的长矛。

It looked old and shrivelled.

它看上去苍老而干枯。

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 leaves are shrivelled up by the heat.

酷暑使树叶卷缩枯萎.

The spinach is shrivelled up.

菠菜蔫了.

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shrivelled词性变形

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