shriveled

基本解釋

You know very well that I’m no longer pretty. Look how wrinkled I am, how shriveled I’ve become!
你很清楚我不漂亮了，看我多皺，變得多枯萎了啊！
If you’re munching grapes, you’ll probably skip one that’s all shriveled and discolored in favor of the round, healthy ones.
比如在吃葡萄時，你會選擇圓圓的，健康的葡萄而不是那些枯萎變色的。
In looking at the pathetic, shriveled plants, Tilman and his team found that plots with 20 or so species had about half the living matter, or biomass, recorded in the same plots in a normal year.
看著可憐的枯萎植物，Tilman和他的小組發(fā)現(xiàn)含有約20個物種的試驗田與其正常時一年記錄相比有一半生物活質(zhì)，或者說生物質(zhì)。

European auto sales have shriveled up amid economic uncertainty and the sovereign debt crisis.
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As prices deflated and opportunities shriveled, Japanese grew less interested in either starting or growing families.
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Next, a fistful of pre-Castro cigars in plastic, resembling shriveled old men too small for their pants.
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When something shrivels or when something shrivels it, it becomes dryer and smaller, often with lines in its surface, as a result of losing the water it contains.
Shrivel up means the same as .
shriveled