shrivel up

shrivel up

美 [??r?v(?)l] 　英 ['?r?v(?)l]

• v.(使)皺縮；(使)干癟；(使)枯萎；(使)無能為力

詞形變化

過去式：shrivelled  過去式：shriveled  現在分詞：shrivelling  現在分詞：shriveling  第三人稱單數：shrivels  

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英漢解釋

v.	1. (使)皺縮;(使)干癟;(使)枯萎;(使)無能為力,(使)失效

英英解釋

v.	1. if something such as a plant shrivels or shrivels up, it becomes smaller and thinner than usual and it does not look fresh and healthy; to make something smaller and thinner than usual 2. to become weaker or smaller in amount; to make something weaker or smaller in amount

例句

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

當然，經理也必須能說“是”，否則他們的組織將枯萎死亡。

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

如果你再呆在水里，你要皺成一個干果了。

Why do you always seem to shrivel up when we meet new people at parties? You cannot avoid them for ever.

為什么你總是在聯歡會時怕見生人呢？你不可能永遠避開他們。

One of the terrible aspects of acute mental distress , as Borgna so perceptively puts it, is that words shrivel up and become meaningless .

就像博爾尼亞極富見地的表述一樣，極度的精神困擾所表現出的一種可怕狀況是：語言逐漸枯澀，并變得毫無意義。

Vegetablesshould be kept at room temperature and not in the fridge as they can over ripe in the fridge and shrivel up.

蔬菜應在室溫下保存，不要放在冰箱內，因為它們在冰箱里能過分熟化和枯萎。

"I was sure I'd shrivel up and die if I didn't eat meat, " recalls Joe Schneider, a mailman who is into bodybuilding .

“以前我確信自己如果不吃肉，就會衰弱而死。”一位熱衷于健美的郵差先生喬伊舒奈德回想道。

We will dry and shrivel up if we only have wisdom but no love.

如果我們有智慧而沒有愛心的話，我們是很乾枯的。