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

• During serious drought of two years ( 2000-2001), larch trees were dried-up on large area and made great advantage to Ips subeongatus.
  由于抚顺地区2000～2001两年的严重干旱，造成大面积的落叶松林木被旱死，给落叶松八齿小蠹的猖獗发生创造了有利条件。
• 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 money raised will be used to dig bore holes to pump water into the dried-up lake.
  所筹资金将用于钻孔打水以抽水到干涸的湖中。
• Ian Pearson, an environment minister, said Britons must prepare to bid farewell to their lawns, as global warming is turning verdant swards into dried-up dust-bowls.
  环境大臣伊恩皮尔森（ianpearson）表示，英国人必须准备同他们的草坪说再见了，因为全球变暖正将翠绿的草地变成干燥的尘球。
• 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。
• When can my life put forth flowers? Am I already dried-up from within?
  我的生命要到甚么时候才会开花？难道我已经是“内部干枯”了么？
• 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？
• 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。
• Survival in this world is inseparable from generosity, without which we would perish and become dried-up from within.
  要想在世界上生存，必不可少的就是有慷慨无私之心，否则我们的心灵将会变得自私并且干涸。
• With the development of economy and society, water-demand and water shortage situation increasingly, combined with unified management of river basin is very weak, the Yellow River water did not stop the dried-up problem from the fundamental solution.
  随着经济社会的发展，需水量不断增加，缺水形势越来越严峻，加之流域统一管理十分薄弱，黄河缺水断流问题并没有从根本上解决。