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shriveled

v. 皱缩(使...束手无策)

The hot sun shriveled the leaves.
炎热的太阳于树叶卷缩。
The enemy agent just shriveled up when we searched him out.
当我们把那个敌特搜查出来时，他吓得缩作一团。

shriveled

[ adj ]

(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture

<adj.all>

dried-up grass

the desert was edged with sere vegetation

shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings

withered vines

lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness

<adj.all>

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

he did well despite his withered arm

a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair

reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity

<adj.all>

our shriveled receipts during the storm

as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled

the dollar's shrunken buying power

Shrivel \Shriv"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shriveled}or
{Shrivelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shriveling} or {Shrivelling}.]
[Probably akin to shrimp, shrink; cf. dial. AS. screpa to
pine away, Norw. skrypa to waste, skryp, skryv, transitory,
frail, Sw. skr["o]pling feeble, Dan. skr["o]belig, Icel.
skrj?pr brittle, frail.]
To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form
corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin
shrivels with age; -- often with up.

Last year, when drought shriveled yields, imports jumped to 68 million bushels.
Moldy or shriveled peanuts? ANSWERS 1.
"No lines today at the checkout," said Greta Meinischmidt, squeezing a shriveled apple, then a scrawny Cuban banana. "Very small, like our eggs.
In Kansas, for example, winter wheat production was estimated at 460.2 million bushels, more than double the shriveled 1989 harvest of 213.6 million bushels.
Unprotected pieces shriveled and turned brown within a few hours.
The price of People Express stock has shriveled, closing at $2.375 a share, unchanged, in national over-the-counter trading Wednesday.
But in the U.S., profitability deteriorated as the yen strengthened sharply against the dollar during the past five years, and many makers clawed out new market share by offering dealer incentives that shriveled profits.
However, farm income excluding subsidies fell $3.2 billion in August, more than four times the July decline of $700 million. Analysts blamed the slippage on the Farm Belt drought that shriveled crops and parched pastures.
The recent downpours, which have forced many farmers to delay harvesting their shriveled crops, bring the year to a sad, ironic close.
It represented the smallest harvest since 1983, when similar searing heat and lack of rain shriveled output to 4.17 billion bushels.
According to the Commerce Department, a rebound in farm income helped Kansas this year after drought shriveled the state's winter wheat crop in 1989.
However, the government said the temporary effects of the summer drought, which shriveled crops and seared pastures, are masking the true strength of the economy in the final nine months of the year.
The retail participation dropped to an average 18.2% in 1988, and shriveled to barely 14% some months during the year.
Wilson said the prospect of reduced production has driven up the farm prices of crops and that shriveled forage supplies already have forced many producers to reduce their livestock inventories.
In Kansas, winter wheat production was estimated at 460.2 million bushels, unchanged from the May forecast and more than double the shriveled 1989 harvest of 213.6 million bushels.
Crops and profits shriveled in the fields as grain production dropped by one-third, but the farmer got some help from Congress _ $3.9 billion in drought relief.
I hope his condition doesn't deteriorate," she said as she squeezed a few shriveled oranges she found in a nearby shop to make juice for Elie.
Ken Bader, the trade group's chief executive officer, said Thursday he told European officials, including soybean processors, the drought left only a few beans shriveled and green.

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