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。
• 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。
• For most of us, a bad conference experience means drying up at the microphone.
  对于我们大多数人来说，一次糟糕的会议经历无非是指在话筒面前忘词。
• The rivers are all drying up in the hot summer.
  炎热的夏日使河流不断干涸。
• 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。
• Now that flood is drying up, just as China looks to focus more on job-intensive service-sector growth.
  现在经济正在回升，正如中国更加关注就业导向服务业增长。
• 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。
• 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。