shrivel

单词shrivel

基本解释

v.: 皱缩
网络: 枯萎；萎缩；束手无策

权威解释

• （使）枯萎，干枯，皱缩:

  to become or make sth dry and wrinkled as a result of heat, cold or being old

英汉解释

• 皱纹

• 凉了半截

• 皱缩,干瘪,憔悴;

• 萎缩

• (使)皱缩;(使)干瘪;(使)枯萎;(使)无能为力,(使)失效

词性分析

• 第三人称单数：shrivels

• 现在分词：shriveling

• 过去式：shriveled

同义词

v.shrinkwitherdry upcontractcurl up

反义词

v.expand

例句

• Of course, managers have to be able to say yes too, otherwise their organisations would shrivel up and die.

  当然，经理也必须能说“是”，否则他们的组织将枯萎死亡。

• Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance . It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.

  不管是你得到的或是你欠别人的，可你的财产、名誉和权势也都会变成和你毫不相干的东西。

• Were he now to back away from his UN bid, his clout among his own people would shrivel.

  倘若他现在在他的联合国入联申请中有所退缩，那么他对自身民众的影响力就会大打折扣。

• The paper started to shrivel and curl up in the heat.

  那张纸在高温下开始起皱卷曲。

• Lack of vitamin A causes membranes around the organs to shrivel, leaving them vulnerable.

  缺少维生素A导致器官周围的膜萎缩，使它们不堪一击。

• The bank predicts that the GDP of Malaysia and Cambodia will shrink by 1% and Thailand"s economy will shrivel by 2. 7%.

  世行预计，马来西亚和柬埔寨将萎缩1%，而泰国将达2.

• Knowing that climate change could shrivel their harvests, wine growers can plan ahead, but planting for the future can be a gamble.

  知道气候变化会减少他们收成的葡萄酒种植户们得以谋事在前，但为未来种植是场赌博。

• If an organ is somehow severed from its body, it will shrivel and die. It cannot exist on its own, and neither can you.

  假如一个器官与身体分离，就会萎缩死去，绝无法单独存在；你也是这样。

• As house prices plunge and savings shrivel, divorcing couples are fighting over a shrinking cake.

  随着房价跳水、积蓄萎缩，离婚夫妇现在争夺的蛋糕正在变小。

• If you stay in that bathtub any longer, you"ll shrivel up into a prune.

  如果你再呆在水里，你要皱成一个干果了。