英语释义

• (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"

• 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"

• 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"

片语

shrivelled wizened干瘪的

shrivelled kernel瘪谷

shrivelled dried wizened指风吹日晒而干枯

crimpy卷缩了的；皱缩的

shrivelled apple干缩苹果

shrivelled caryopsis干膜质颖果

shrivelled kernets未熟粒

dry and shrivelled干瘪

英汉例句

• the fries shrivelled slightly as did the burger patty, but the overall appearance of the food did not change as the weeks turned to months.

  薯条像汉堡肉饼一样有点轻微皱缩，但是从几周到几个月的时间内，这快餐总体外观并没有改变。

• the moon is not exactly the shrivelled prune of a satellite we once thought.

  月球并非如我们想象的一般褶皱干燥。

• christianity has shrivelled in christendom's european heart.

  在基督教世界的欧洲中心，基督教已经萎缩。

• 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。

• 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。

• the bigger question for them is: can the miracle of the cerrado be exported, especially to africa, where the good intentions of outsiders have so often shrivelled and died?

  而对他们来说更大的问题是：塞拉多创造的农业奇迹可以被其他国家借鑒吗？ ，尤其是非洲，引进的好方法经常在这里行不通。

• in america soaring gdp growth is likely to be a one-quarter wonder, driven by a rebuilding of firms’ shrivelled inventories.

  美国急速的gdp增长率有可能是单一季度的奇迹，受到来自于企业重建萎缩的存货的驱动。

• the hippocampus also shrivelled faster in smokers.

  海马体也会因吸烟而更快的「瘪」掉。

• 「public interest in horse-racing in new york state has simply shrivelled up,」 says bennett liebman, who heads a racing think-tank at albany law school.

  「在纽约州，公众对赛马的兴趣已然不再」奥尔巴尼法律学校的赛马智库领导贝内特利伯曼如是说到。

• the city got walloped by the tech crash in 2001. venture-capital funding has shrivelled to about a quarter of what it was in 2000 and took longer to recover than in other parts of america.

  2001年高科技行业的低迷曾使其遭受重创，创业投资额一度缩减到2000年的四分之一，而且恢复的时间要比美国其它地区都长。

• investors must hope that their capital will not have shrivelled in the sun by the time that day arrives.

  投资者一定希望，到那时他们的资本还没有因阳光的炙烤而「萎缩」。

• over the past century and a half capitalism has proved its worth for billions of people. the parts of the world where it has flourished have prospered; the parts where it has shrivelled have suffered.

  在过去的一个半世纪里，资本主义向数十亿的人证明了它的价值：资本主义盛行的地区变得繁荣，资本主义枯竭的地区饱受苦难。

• at elite american universities, where endowments have shrivelled and hiring is down, increased interest in economics is among the most benign of the recession’s effects.

  经济萧条几乎切断了美国精英大学的捐赠来源，并迫使这些大学减员缩编，不过也带来了福音，比如学生开始热切地学习经济学。