shrivelled

英美

v. 皱缩(使 ... 束手无策)

shrapnel n.开花弹；榴弹；弹片
shred v.撕成碎片n.碎布条；细片；少许
shredder n.碎纸机
shreveport 什里夫波特[美国路易斯安那州西北部城市]
shrew n.悍妇；泼妇；鼩鼱

Adjective:

(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"
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"
"he did well despite his withered arm"
"a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"
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"

1. 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。

2. 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。

3. In the nineteenth century slave traders decimated the population, which shrivelled to 111 people by 1877.: 在19世纪，奴隶贩子使人口锐减，到1877年，奴隶人口减少到111人。

4. The spinach is shrivelled up.: 菠菜蔫了。

5. The leaves are shrivelled up by the heat.: 酷暑使树叶卷缩枯萎。

6. He has a shrivelled face.: 他有一张满是皱纹的脸。

7. A shrivelled, lifeless, vacant form.: 一枝枯萎，死寂，茫然的形影。

8. The habitat of lions has shrivelled.: 狮子的栖息地变小了。

9. The hot sunshine shrivelled the grass.: 炎热的太阳于草枯萎了。

10. With time the pinna becomes shrivelled.: 耳廓随之变成皱缩。

11. Private colleges' endowments' have shrivelled.: 私立大学的捐赠款也在减少。

12. Elsewhere in the Arab world most Jewish communities have shrivelled.: 在其他阿拉伯世界中绝大多数的犹太社会均已渐趋销声匿迹。

13. As consumer spending has slumped, the external imbalances have shrivelled.: 随着消费者支出下降，外部失衡已经消褪。

14. The grapes hang shrivelled from the vine; the juice sucked out by the beasts.: 干瘪的葡萄耷拉在枝蔓上；果汁已被这群怪兽吸干。

15. Amid the smell of cooked books, foreign investors' confidence has shrivelled.: 由于风闻账册数据遭到窜改捏造，外国投资者的信心大减。

16. Venture funding has shrivelled up in America, and Europe is not doing much better.: 在美国，风险投资大量缩水，欧洲的情况也好不到哪里去。

17. "He continued by saying that he" shrivelled up "every time Star Wars was mentioned to him.": 他接着说到：每当有人对他提起《星球大战》他就兴味索然。

18. The risk premium that investors usually demand for holding bonds over a longer period has shrivelled.: 投资者在持有较长期债券时，通常要求获得风险溢价，而在这种情况下，长期国债的风险溢价已经大大降低。

19. Rochester -- his passion died as if a blight had shrivelled it up: he only asked -- What have YOU to say?: 就仿佛蛀虫使植物枯萎一样，他的怒气消了，只不过问了一句，“你有什么要说的？”

20. It is used medically to test for dehydration, as the skin becomes wrinkled and shrivelled when dehydrated.: 医学上用以测试是否脱水，因为脱水时皮肤会收缩、形成褶皱。

21. The custom of the British upper classes, civilian and military, has tailed away as that class has shrivelled.: 随着英国上层阶级，平民和军人阶层规模的缩小，他们的一些传统也渐渐淡化。

22. You remember when you had to eat those miserable, shrivelled up quails the last time you were invited to their place!: 你还记得上次被邀请去他们家你不得不吃那些痛苦，皱缩的鹌鹑！

23. NO SOONER had philanthropy become fashionable than the credit crunch shrivelled fortunes and the donations they sustain.: 慈善活动刚刚成为一种时尚，信贷危机缩减了他们的财富和他们所给予的捐赠。

24. NO SOONER had philanthropy become fashionable than the credit crunch shrivelled fortunes and the donations they sustain.: 慈善活动刚刚成为一种时尚，信贷危机缩减了他们的财富和他们所给予的捐赠。

shrivel （使）枯萎

【近义词】

contracted 收缩了的
shriveled 皱缩的
shrunken 缩小的
withered 枯萎的
sere 干枯的
wizen 干涸
wizened 皱缩的
sear 使 ... 干枯
dried-up 干缩的

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