drying up

英 [ˈdraɪɪŋ ʌp]

美 [ˈdraɪɪŋ ʌp]

n.  擦干(厨具、餐具等)

柯林斯词典

• 擦干(厨具、餐具等)
  When you dothe drying up, you dry things such as plates, pans, knives, and cups after they have been washed.

in AM, use 美国英语用 drying

英英释义

noun

• the process of extracting moisture
  Synonym:dehydrationdesiccationevaporation

双语例句

• What we are seeing already for example in southern Brazil, which is in the wake of the river of water vapor coming from the Amazon, is already a drying up.
  巴西国家亚马逊研究所的安东尼奥诺布雷称：破坏性的气候循环已经初露端倪。以我们已经看到的巴西南部为例，由亚马逊的水汽形成的河流将要干涸了。
• However, a trickle has considerably more chance of drying up completely than a flow.
  但是，涓涓细流与滚滚洪流相比，有更大的可能完全枯竭。
• The Treasury Secretary said he had briefed the Chinese leadership on the US economy and the risk that the banking crisis could result in credit drying up in the real economy.
  这位美国财长表示，他向中国领导层简要介绍了美国的经济状况，以及银行危机可能导致实体经济信贷枯竭的风险。
• There were few signs of the rally in global equities drying up yesterday.
  昨日几乎没有迹象表明，全球股市的反弹正日渐衰竭。
• Chavez, who also holds capitalism responsible for many of the world's problems, warned that water supplies on Earth were drying up.
  查韦斯坚持认为资本主义应该为世界上的许多问题负责任，警告地球上的水资源正在枯竭。
• It was staying still for drying up the under wings stretching out them from the upper wings like shelters.
  它从像壳的上翅膀下边伸下翅膀，和不动了。因为它要晒干全部的翅膀。
• Developing countries now face falling remittances, declining export markets, a drying up of investments and shrinking tourism revenues, he said.
  他说：发展中国家如今正面临汇款不断减少、出口市场日渐萎缩、投资资金枯竭和旅游收入下降的局面。
• Modern agricultural biotechnology makes great importance on some social issues such as food security, drying up of resources and environment deterioration.
  现代农业生物技术在缓解全球粮食安全、资源枯竭、环境恶化等一系列重大问题中发挥了极其重要的作用。
• At the cost of overdraft resources and damage ecology to develop economy for a long time, natural resource is drying up and ecology environment has become the stiff factor to restrain sustainable development in northeast old industrial base.
  由于经济建设长期以透支资源和破坏生态为代价，东北老工业基地自然资源正逐步走向枯竭，生态环境成为制约其可持续发展的刚性因子。
• But rubber trees are thirsty, reducing the water content in soil and drying up streams and wells& and deforestation to make way for rubber plantations is releasing huge amounts of carbon.
  但是橡胶树需要很多水，这会减少土壤中的水，让河流与水井干涸。而砍伐森林改为橡胶种植园正在释放大量的碳。