詞組搭配

skinny and shriveled干瘦

Shriveled Oasis干枯綠洲

Shriveled heart-干枯的心臟

tight and shriveled tongue舌質(zhì)堅(jiān)斂蒼老

英英釋義

1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;

"dried-up grass"

"the desert was edged with sere vegetation"

"shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"

"withered vines"

2. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness;

"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"-W.F.Starkie

"he did well despite his withered arm"

"a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair"

3. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity;

"our shriveled receipts during the storm"

"as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"

"the dollar's shrunken buying power"