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

• She took out the plate, stared blankly at the dried-up food on it, and tipped it into the bin
  她拿出盘子，茫然地望着上面已经干掉的食物，然后把它倒进了垃圾桶。
• That dried-up, skinny old codger could give an informal lecture that took you from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau all the way down to Hainan Island, or from the Taihang Range to Huangguoshu Falls.
  那干瘦老头居然能从青藏高原扯到海南岛，从太行山扯到黄果树瀑布。
• Situated underground on the bottom of an ancient dried-up sea, it has, apparently, been in existence for thousands of years but was recently re-established in the early1960s by an international team.
  它位于一个干涸的古老海洋底部的地下。很显然，它存在了数千年，但最近在60年代初被一个国际研究小组重建。
• A little dried-up old man came to the door.
  有个干瘪的小老头来到门口。
• In arid and semi-arid areas of northern China, lakes have been facing a number of problems such us dried-up, shrinkage and serious water pollution.
  中国北方干旱和半干旱地区湖泊面临不断干枯、萎缩和水质污染严重的局面。
• 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。
• The grass is gradually dried-up and withering and Pallen leaves.
  草渐渐干枯、枯萎并落叶。
• With resources of petroleum and natural gas in the world gradually exhausted, mankind will face a situation of dried-up oil-gas resources in the later 21st century, so it has become the aim of scientific community to seek clean and efficient new energy.
  随着世界上石油、天然气资源的日渐耗尽，人类在21世纪后期面临着油气资源枯渴的局面，因此寻求洁净高效的新能源成为科学界追求的目标。
• 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。
• Suddenly the flow of easy credit dried-up and large amounts of existing debt turned bad.
  突然间，唾手可得的信用没有了，大量现有的债务成了坏帐。