英语释义

• without a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone;

  "bone-dry leaves are a fire hazard"

  "a drier to get the clothes bone dry"

片语

bone-ash dry骨粉干燥

Bone-dry caps浓咖啡

bone-dry body干透坯

bone-dry wood[木]

bone-dry aggregate干透集为

bone-dry chellac干燥白虫胶

bone-dry paper绝干纸

英汉例句

• hot, dusty harmattan winds blow across the bone-dry desert, which receives an annual rainfall of about 1 inch (25 millimeters).

  酷热环境、满是灰尘的、干燥的热风越过极为干燥的沙漠，在那里每年的降雨量大约是一英寸（25毫米）。

• just why they took so long to travel north is not clear, but many researchers have suggested that the bone-dry sahara desert was a major barrier to migrations from the south.

  至于人类究竟为什么在这么长时间之后才开始朝北行进，原因尚不清楚。然而，许多研究人员提出，极为干燥的撒哈拉沙漠是自南向北迁移的主要障碍。

• u.s. geologists say they may have found the answer -- or at least an important clue -- in a bone-dry desert in egypt, of all places.

  美国地理学家说他们也许找到了答案--或者至少一条重要的线索--在干枯的埃及沙漠，所有的地方。

• the mars we are coming to know has embraced environments ranging from bone-dry to soaking wet to blanketed with snow and ice.

  今日人们所知的火星，曾经历过极干燥到极潮湿，以及满覆冰雪的各种环境。

• above: the bone-dry three graces fountain stands in the pavilion in front of the mall.

  图4：枯竭的三女神喷泉矗立在商场前面。

• disappointment because nasa sent spirit to mars to search for signs of water, and the rocks near the landing site were all made in a bone-dry environment.

  说「遗憾」是因为nasa把勇气号送上火星的目的是寻找水存在的证据，但着陆点附近的巖石却都是在绝对干燥的环境中形成的。

• every year, a climatological flip-flop draws the rainy-season weather down from india and douses this bone-dry land in a phenomenon known locally as 「the wet.」

  每年，气候的突然变化将印度的这钟雨季天气转移到南半球来，浸润着这个极为干旱的陆地，成为当地人眼中的湿地。

• the colon was ablaze, like a bone-dry bale of hay soaked in gasoline and then set afire.

  结肠在燃烧，就像是一捆极干燥的干草被浸到汽油里然后被点燃。

• a bone-dry summer last year was followed by a winter of unusually high wind, low temperatures and heavy snow cover.

  去年夏天极度干旱后紧跟着的是一个狂风施虐、温度极低和大雪覆盖的冬季。

• a new study suggests that, contrary to recent work, the lunar interior is as bone-dry as scientists thought 40 years ago, when nasa astronauts lugged home the first moon rocks.

  一项新的研究指出，与最近的认识相反的是，和40十年前当美国太空署的宇航员带回第一块月巖时科学家们想的一样，月球内部是完全干燥的。

• his performance is all sly looks and bone-dry readings, held together by a general air of barely contained exasperation at the antics of the fools and knaves who surround him.

  他的表演结合了狡黠的外表和干巴巴的台词，以及一种对身边由傻瓜和骗子组成的老古董们抑制不住的绝望情绪。

• now research shows how one plant does this: the desert rhubarb plant captures 16 times more liquid from its bone-dry surroundings than neighboring plants.

  目前研究发现了一种植物是如何做到这一点的：一种沙漠中生长的大黄类植物可以比邻近的植物捕捉到多出十六倍的水分。