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

• 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。
• 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。
• Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
  你的财富、名望和短暂的权利将变得无足轻重。
• In the foreign trade sector, export received some recovery after experienced large-scale shrivel.
  对外贸易部门中，出口经历了大规模的萎缩之后有了一定的回升。
• Each day, with strength and shame, Mary trudged to the letterbox in hope, only to swivel, shrivel and slink back inside.
  每天，带着兴奋和惭愧，玛丽跋涉到满怀希望的邮箱前，只是为了打开，关上然后偷偷溜进屋子。
• The plant shrivels and dies.
  植物干枯而死。
• 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。
• 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。
• Were he now to back away from his UN bid, his clout among his own people would shrivel.
  如果他现在在联合国的入联申请中逐步后退，他在他自己人民当中的声望将会急剧下降。
• Get the bulbs into the ground, or they will begin to shrivel.
  把鳞茎种到地里，否则会开始干枯的。