shrivel

英 [ˈʃrɪvl]

美 [ˈʃrɪvl]

v.  (使)枯萎，干枯，皱缩

过去式：shrivelled　过去分词：shrivelled　现在分词：shrivelling　第三人称单数：shrivels　复数：shrivels　

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Collins.1 / BNC.15916 / COCA.16142

短语动词

牛津词典

verb

• （使）枯萎，干枯，皱缩
  to become or make sth dry and wrinkled as a result of heat, cold or being old
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 shriveling, shriveled


• V-ERG (使)枯萎;(使)干枯;(使)皱缩
  When somethingshrivelsor when somethingshrivelsit, it becomes dryer and smaller, often with lines in its surface, as a result of losing the water it contains.
  1. The plant shrivels and dies.
     植物干枯而死。
  2. ...dry weather that shrivelled this summer's crops.
     造成今夏作物枯萎的干旱天气
  3. Shrivel upmeans the same asshrivel.
     shrivel up 同 shrivel
  4. The leaves started to shrivel up.
     叶子开始枯萎。

英英释义

verb

• decrease in size, range, or extent
  1. His earnings shrank
  2. My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me
  Synonym:shrink
• wither, as with a loss of moisture
  1. The fruit dried and shriveled
  Synonym:shrivel upshrinkwither

双语例句

• Why do you always seem to shrivel up when we meet new people at parties? You can't avoid them for ever.
  为什么你总是在联欢会时怕见生人呢？你不可能永远避开他们。
• Private colleges have seen their endowments and investment income shrivel because of the financial crisis, while public colleges have had funding cut by cash-strapped state governments.
  由于经济危机的缘故，私立大学的捐助资金和投资收入都减少了。
• We should worry as much, or more, about the tendency of authorities to give a wink and a nod to anti-competitive practices during a downturn as about the survival of companies that are anyhow due to shrivel in a world of innovating entrepreneurs.
  我们既应担心那些本来就会在创新的企业家世界中枯萎的企业的生存，也应担心（甚至更加担心）政府倾向于在经济低迷时期默许甚至赞同反竞争行为。
• Shrinkage contributed to an increase in the concentration of basic grape ingredients such as sugar and acid. An appropriate degree of shrinkage was apparently helpful in improving the phenolic content and increasing the antioxidant activity, but the berries that continued to shrivel showed a low antioxidant activity.
  研究结果显示：皱缩会导致果实基本成分诸如糖、酸浓度的增加；适度皱缩有益于葡萄中酚类物质浓度及抗氧化活性的提高，但是深度皱缩会使抗氧化能力显著降低。
• Provincial and municipal authorities, who rely on land sales for about a third of their revenue, have seen demand for land shrivel because of the slowdown in private real estate investment.
  大约三分之一财政收入依赖土地销售收入的省、市级地方政府，已经看到土地需求因房地产领域私人投资放缓而出现萎缩。
• For southeast Asia, the rising cost of money and the growing scarcity of foreign money in capital markets is coming at the same time as current accounts have deteriorated and local banks have seen deposit funding shrivel.
  在东南亚地区，与资金成本上涨和外国资金退出资本市场相伴随的是，经常账户恶化以及本土银行的存款资金萎缩。
• In the deep winter, natural flowers tend to shrivel;
  隆冬时节，自然界之花通常会凋谢飘零；
• Then their seed ripens, and soon they turn brown and shrivel up.
  随后，它们的种子熟了，不久就变枯萎。
• As you say, creditors are roosting in trees like vultures waiting to swoop down on anything valuable. In the absence of vultures, they have been reduced to rigging their towers with solar reflectors to shrivel the corpses.
  你晓得，那些债主象兀鹰一般歇在树枝上，伺机对任何有价值的东西飞扑下来。如果没有兀鹫的话，帕西人就不得不在高塔上装备太阳反射装置来把死尸照枯。
• In a variety of contemporary culture, folk art as the most national characteristics and local spirit of creation, it not only failed to shrivel, but more snowy fragrant, showing its mystery and meaning.
  在当代各种文化的冲击下，民俗艺术作为最具民族特色和本土精神的创造，它不但没有凋谢飘零，反而更加艳丽芬芳，显现着它的奥秘和真谛。