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

• 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。
• 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。
• Although the phenomenon of dried-up relieved, the water resource characteristics of Yellow River Basin does not change.
  断流现象虽然有所缓解，黄河流域属资源性缺水地区的特征仍不改变。
• The grass is gradually dried-up and withering and Pallen leaves.
  草渐渐干枯、枯萎并落叶。
• We couldn't get there with vehicles, because there were dried-up watercourses, wadis, very deep, preventing vehicle access.
  我们没法开车去，因为有很多干涸的河道，旱谷非常深，车没法通过。
• 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。
• They came upon a dried-up oasis.
  他们发现了一片干涸的绿洲。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。