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

• 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。
• What we are seeing already for example in southern Brazil, which is in the wake of the river of water vapor coming from the Amazon, is already a drying up.
  巴西国家亚马逊研究所的安东尼奥诺布雷称：破坏性的气候循环已经初露端倪。以我们已经看到的巴西南部为例，由亚马逊的水汽形成的河流将要干涸了。
• To allow the closure of the fastest growing companies is not a loss, cash flow is drying up.
  让企业最快倒闭的亏损，是现金流枯竭。
• It was staying still for drying up the under wings stretching out them from the upper wings like shelters.
  它从像壳的上翅膀下边伸下翅膀，和不动了。因为它要晒干全部的翅膀。
• Order books are drying up.
  订单正逐渐枯竭。
• 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。
• The river is drying up because there is no rain.
  因为缺雨，这条河正在干涸。
• Researchers at the unit say climate change is to blame for rivers drying up and species migrating to new habitats, causing changes in ecosystems.
  该部门的科学家说气候变化是造成河流干涸以及动物迁徙到新的栖息地的原因，这导致了生态系统的变化。
• At the cost of overdraft resources and damage ecology to develop economy for a long time, natural resource is drying up and ecology environment has become the stiff factor to restrain sustainable development in northeast old industrial base.
  由于经济建设长期以透支资源和破坏生态为代价，东北老工业基地自然资源正逐步走向枯竭，生态环境成为制约其可持续发展的刚性因子。
• 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。