shrivel
美 [ˈʃrɪv(ə)l] 
英 ['ʃrɪv(ə)l]
词形变化
过去式：shrivelled 过去式：shriveled 现在分词：shrivelling 现在分词：shriveling 第三人称单数：shrivels 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | （使）枯萎，干枯，皱缩to become or make sth dry and wrinkled as a result of heat, cold or being old |
| 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。 |
| 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。 |
英汉解释
v. | 1. (使)皱缩;(使)干瘪;(使)枯萎;(使)无能为力,(使)失效 |
英英解释
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。
The support comes at a cost: the deal dilutes existing shareholders' capital by half and the dividend will shrivel.
贷款导致的损失：交易将现有股东的资本价值降低了一半，红利也有所减少。
In the absence of vultures, they have been reduced to rigging their towers with solar reflectors to shrivel the corpses.
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。
To dry up or shrivel from or as if from loss of moisture .
干枯，枯萎因或似乎因失去水分而变干燥或枯萎。
Why finial superior from political and business circle feel so shrivel in face of financial crisis?
为什么政界和商界及金融界的顶尖高手面对金融危机却束手无策呢？！
As their contributions soar and Western ones stagnate or shrivel, the aid world is seeing genuine competition.
随着他们的贡献剧增而西方援助停滞或萎缩，援助国之间迎来真真的较量。
Unlike some plants that struggle to survive, lose the battle, shrivel and die, garden weeds are indomitable.
某些植物为了生存努力挣扎战斗，却最终以失败告终，枯萎死亡。
A judgment in Mayo's favour, they contend, will undermine existing patents and shrivel investment in personalised medicine.
偏向于梅奥的支持方争辩道这将破坏现有的专利及导致对个性化药品的投资减少。
If they move to another country, their chances of staying in touch with family members shrivel.
如果他们被跨国收养，他们与家庭成员保持联系的机会几乎没有了。
Unless drugs firms continually bring enough new products to market to replace lost revenues they will shrivel and die.
除非制药公司持续推出足够多的新产品以弥补收入损失，否则就会衰落甚至倒闭。
Oct. 5--Americans have seen their retirement savings shrivel, home equity evaporate and job security vanish.
十月五日，美国人看到自己的退休储蓄缩水，家庭权益和职业安全凭空消失。
Wights are armed with horrible Bane Blades that cause mortal flesh to decay and shrivel.
恶灵装备着令人恐惧的怨毒之剑，可令生物的皮肉腐烂干枯。
Japan, in contrast, saw productivity growth shrivel in the early 1990s.
反观日本，却遭遇了生产力的萎缩。
Why do you always seem to shrivel up when we meet new people at parties? You cannot avoid them for ever.
为什么你总是在联欢会时怕见生人呢？你不可能永远避开他们。
One of the terrible aspects of acute mental distress , as Borgna so perceptively puts it, is that words shrivel up and become meaningless .
就像博尔尼亚极富见地的表述一样，极度的精神困扰所表现出的一种可怕状况是：语言逐渐枯涩，并变得毫无意义。
With 19-20 hours of nap time. The habitat of lions has shriveled, and threatens to shrivel more.
它们的午睡时间有19-20个小时。狮子的栖息地已经变小，而且很有可能更小。
To wither or shrivel or mature imperfectly.
枯萎：枯萎，萎缩或发育不良。
Vegetablesshould be kept at room temperature and not in the fridge as they can over ripe in the fridge and shrivel up.
蔬菜应在室温下保存，不要放在冰箱内，因为它们在冰箱里能过分熟化和枯萎。
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。
As a result, our workforces will shrivel, almost certainly beginning in 2009.
其结果是，几乎可以肯定的从2009年开始，我们的劳动力将会缩减。
To dry up ; wither or shrivel .
枯萎，萎缩或发育不良。
"I was sure I'd shrivel up and die if I didn't eat meat, " recalls Joe Schneider, a mailman who is into bodybuilding .
“以前我确信自己如果不吃肉，就会衰弱而死。”一位热衷于健美的邮差先生乔伊舒奈德回想道。
We will dry and shrivel up if we only have wisdom but no love.
如果我们有智慧而没有爱心的话，我们是很乾枯的。
Sedimentation Shrivel in Ningxia-Inner Mongolia Section of the Yellow River and Its Influence to Ice Run Floods
黄河宁蒙河段河道淤积萎缩及其对凌汛的影响
Cause and Countermeasure of Rice Shrivel
水稻谷粒空秕原因及对策
Plans Shrivel for Chinese Eco-City
中国生态城计划遇阻
