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"

• 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

withered zone枯潮带

withered grass枯草

withered hair毛折

withered litters枯落物

Withered Flower花事了

withered tree枯朽的树木

withered pine松树枯死

wither away枯萎；幻灭

withered apple干瘪的苹果

Withered Petals枯萎的花瓣

英汉例句

• jesse got up and looked around again before walking through the withered broomsedge and joe-pye weed.

  杰希站起来又向四周看了看，然后走过干枯的地肤叶和紫泽兰。

• in withered twig.

  握在枯枝之中。

• so, the next time you see a withered hand extended in need, or peer into the eyes of a lonely aging face don’t run or look away.

  所以下次当您看到一只手形容枯槁伸出需要帮助或看到一个孤寂的老年面庞时，请不要再走开。

• as he relates this to me he scratches his head solemnly with his withered arm.

  纳南塔蒂对我讲述这段往事时神情严肃地用那只枯萎的手搔搔头。

• ann: i don’t think so. what would do when you find your flowers have withered up?

  我不这么认为，当你发现你的花都枯萎了，你会怎么做？

• the gaoler nodded grimly, laying his withered hand on the shoulder of the miserable toad.

  狱卒阴沉地点点头，把他枯干的手按在不幸的蟾蜍肩上。

• the thousands of flowers left outside the manhattan apartment building where john kennedy jr. resided had long withered when the final reports on his plane crash were issued.

  当关于小约翰·肯尼迪的坠机事故被最后一次报道，留在曼哈顿公寓外的数千朵玫瑰已经枯萎了许久。

• and some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.

  有落在磐石上的，一出来就枯乾了，因为得不着滋润。

• under the picture, in a glazed frame, there hung a bouquet of withered flowers; they were almost fifty years old; they looked so very old!

  在这幅画下边，在玻璃的后面，挂着一个枯萎了的花束。它们无疑也有半个世纪的历史，因为它们的样子也很古老。

• so speaking, she undid the clasp that fastened the scarlet letter, and, taking it from her bosom, threw it to a distance among the withered leaves.

  她一边这样说着，一边解开别着红字的胸针，从胸前取下红字，远远地抛到枯叶之中。

• only reluctance can help escape the stress of reality, maintain the being of youth and nourish our withered heart.

  我们做人无非为着多做些依依的心怀，才能逃开现实的压迫，剩些青春的想头，来滋润这将干枯的心灵。

• the withered oak leaf in the book here recalled the friend, the schoolfellow, who was to be his friend for life.

  那时我们以为永远会跟他们亲密地生活在一起，会跟他们一起共甘苦。这书里面有一起萎枯了的栎树叶子。

• now when harvest time came the devil appeared and wanted to take away his crop, but he found nothing except the yellow withered leaves, and the happy peasant dug up his turnips.

  现在收获的季节到了，魔鬼又来了，要求收回属于他的收成。但除了那些枯黄的败叶外，他一无所获；而农夫却在兴高采烈地挖着他的萝卜.

• i have watered the red huckleberry, the sand cherry and the nettle-tree, the red pine and the black ash, the white grape and the yellow violet, which might have withered else in dry seasons.

  我还浇灌红色的越橘树、沙色的樱桃树和荨麻树、红色的松树和黑色的白蜡树，还有白色的葡萄树和枯黄的紫罗兰，不然它们会在干旱的季节里枯萎的。

• however, the plants tested with the rock music withered and died.

  然而，植物听到摇滚音乐却会枯萎或死掉。

• but it was not an axe they heard--only a branch which still hung on a withered tree, and was moved up and down by the wind.

  但是他们听到的不是斧子--只是一条灌木一直绑在一颗干枯的树上，风把它吹的一动一动的。

• in zhaotong, yunnan province, tobacco crops have withered due to a lack of rainfall and soaring temperatures.

  在云南省的昭通市，由于少雨和温度激增，烟草作物已经枯萎了。

• when it is starting gate when the two wings, like the growth in the branches of a withered leaves.

  当它阖起两张翅膀的时候，像生长在树枝上的一张干枯了的树叶。

相似词

peaked到达高点；消瘦（peak 的过去式和过去分词）

contracted收缩的