基本释义:

v.（因热力，严寒、干燥、年老等而）枯萎，皱缩( shrivel的过去式和过去分词 ); 瘪; 干巴; 干瘪

词性变化

实用例句

Some of them carried pikes with shrivelled heads on top.

他们中一些人手持枪尖上挂着皱缩人头的长矛。

柯林斯例句

It looked old and shrivelled.

它看上去苍老而干枯。

柯林斯例句

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。

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The leaves are shrivelled up by the heat.

酷暑使树叶卷缩枯萎.

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The spinach is shrivelled up.

菠菜蔫了.

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He has a shrivelled face.

他有一张满是皱纹的脸.

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The hot sunshine shrivelled the grass.

炎热的阳光使草枯萎了.

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He has a shrivelled face, ie with many wrinkles.

他脸上有很多皱纹.

辞典例句

The leaves are shrivelled up by the frost.

叶子被霜打蔫了.

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With time the pinna becomes shrivelled.

耳廓随之变成皱缩.

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But it had a withered body, it was tiny and shrivelled wings.

但是他的身体很干瘪,小得可怜,翅膀也皱巴巴的.

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After a week, original and hale strong lamina gradually atrophic and shrivelled.

一星期后, 本来健壮有力的叶片逐渐萎缩干瘪.

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Amid the smell of cooked books, foreign investors'confidence has shrivelled.

由于风闻账册数据遭到窜改捏造, 外国投资者的信心大减.

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Most of the crop has shrivelled up.

大多数谷子已经瘪了.

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The heat shrivelled up the leaves.

暑热使树叶枯萎了.

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英英释义

1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;

"dried-up grass"

"the desert was edged with sere vegetation"

"shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"

"withered vines"

2. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness;

"the old woman's shriveled skin"

"he looked shriveled and ill"

"a shrunken old man"

"a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie

"he did well despite his withered arm"

"a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair"

3. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity;

"our shriveled receipts during the storm"

"as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"

"the dollar's shrunken buying power"