drying up

英 [ˈdraɪɪŋ ʌp]

美 [ˈdraɪɪŋ ʌp]

n.  擦干(厨具、餐具等)

柯林斯词典

• 擦干(厨具、餐具等)
  When you dothe drying up, you dry things such as plates, pans, knives, and cups after they have been washed.

in AM, use 美国英语用 drying

英英释义

noun

• the process of extracting moisture
  Synonym:dehydrationdesiccationevaporation

双语例句

• The river is drying up because there is no rain.
  因为缺雨，这条河正在干涸。
• Those losses go some way in explaining why credit in some areas is drying up.
  这些损失也是一些领域信贷日益枯竭的部分原因。
• Developing countries now face falling remittances, declining export markets, a drying up of investments and shrinking tourism revenues, he said.
  他说：发展中国家如今正面临汇款不断减少、出口市场日渐萎缩、投资资金枯竭和旅游收入下降的局面。
• But rubber trees are thirsty, reducing the water content in soil and drying up streams and wells& and deforestation to make way for rubber plantations is releasing huge amounts of carbon.
  但是橡胶树需要很多水，这会减少土壤中的水，让河流与水井干涸。而砍伐森林改为橡胶种植园正在释放大量的碳。
• Chavez, who also holds capitalism responsible for many of the world's problems, warned that water supplies on Earth were drying up.
  查韦斯坚持认为资本主义应该为世界上的许多问题负责任，警告地球上的水资源正在枯竭。
• But Trauner and Pitkowsky don't see HP's cash flows drying up anytime soon.
  不过特劳纳和皮特考斯基并不认为惠普的现金流会在短期内干涸。
• At a time when deals are drying up across the region, UBS is betting that elevating Shanghai-born Mr.
  在亚洲地区交易普遍干涸之际，瑞银希望晋升上海出生的蔡洪平能带来在中国市场的竞争优势。
• But now the presumed cash flow on which those borrowings were based is drying up.
  但目前，作为那些借款基础的预期现金流正逐渐枯竭。
• However, a trickle has considerably more chance of drying up completely than a flow.
  但是，涓涓细流与滚滚洪流相比，有更大的可能完全枯竭。
• The Treasury Secretary said he had briefed the Chinese leadership on the US economy and the risk that the banking crisis could result in credit drying up in the real economy.
  这位美国财长表示，他向中国领导层简要介绍了美国的经济状况，以及银行危机可能导致实体经济信贷枯竭的风险。