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

• She took out the plate, stared blankly at the dried-up food on it, and tipped it into the bin
  她拿出盘子，茫然地望着上面已经干掉的食物，然后把它倒进了垃圾桶。
• 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？
• In the twentieth century, the earth is getting warmer and warmer with the development of economics, technology and population. There appear many environmental problems such as the thinner ozone layer, air pollution and dried-up water resources.
  在经济发展，科技进步和人丁兴旺的二十一世纪，伴随而至的是全球变暖臭氧层变薄，空气污染、水源枯竭等环境问题。
• Suddenly the flow of easy credit dried-up and large amounts of existing debt turned bad.
  突然间，唾手可得的信用没有了，大量现有的债务成了坏帐。
• That dried-up, skinny old codger could give an informal lecture that took you from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau all the way down to Hainan Island, or from the Taihang Range to Huangguoshu Falls.
  那干瘦老头居然能从青藏高原扯到海南岛，从太行山扯到黄果树瀑布。
• 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。
• Dried-up trend of Tarim River and the countermeasures for mitigation
  新疆塔里木河断流趋势分析与减缓对策
• Although the phenomenon of dried-up relieved, the water resource characteristics of Yellow River Basin does not change.
  断流现象虽然有所缓解，黄河流域属资源性缺水地区的特征仍不改变。
• I mean, when he's in the coffin, he's just a dried-up old corpse.
  我是说，他在棺材里只是具老旧干尸。
• 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。