Two years on, those hopes have shrivelled.

两年后，民众对执政联盟越来越失望。

Rivers shrank and crops shriveled in the fields.

河水干涸了，地里庄稼枯萎了。

His insides seemed to shrivel with embarrassment.

他五脏六腑似乎都因尴尬而缩成了一团。

Till thy skin shrivels up and thou art a skeleton!

一直跳你身体干缩成为一架骸骨。

Without moisture, the cells shrivel—and biting into those shriveled cells is like trying to pop a deflated balloon.

苹果失去水分后，细胞缩水，咬下去感觉就像试图扎破一个瘪掉气球。

Burnout, you might think of a candle's blackened, shriveled, worn-out wick.

关于过度劳累，你可能变黑、缩、破损蜡烛灯芯。

Ancient and shriveled, many people said he hadn't noticed he was dead.

他年纪非常老了，皮肉缩得很厉害，许多人都他并没有留意自己已经死了。

Madam Pince was swooping down on them, her shrivelled face contorted with rage.

平斯夫人正向他们猛扑过来，她那张满是脸都气歪了。

The beans look a bit shrivelled. And I think the lettuce have evaporated.

豆子看上去都枯萎了。 -我莴苣也脱水了吧。

Like, on the couch with this little blanket over her shrivelled little legs.

躺在沙发上把一条小毯子盖在她萎缩双腿上。

I mean, all plants need water to grow, and without it, they shrivel up and die.

我意思是，所有植物生长都需要水，没有水，植物就枯萎死亡。

Then he found it—the shrivelled kidney-like stone Slughorn had taken from him in Potions.

然后他找了——斯拉格霍恩在魔药课上收去那块腰子状石头。

When it gets hard and shriveled and the skin turns black, then the tofu has matured.

干瘪坚硬以及黑褐色表皮才是成熟标志。

Inside were half a dozen shrivelled brown objects, looking more like dried-up kidneys than real stones.

盒子里装着半打干瘪褐色物体，与其像石头，不如像干腰子。

Beep! Beep! Once it was done, she peeled open the cover, revealing a single shriveled carrot.

哔！哔！晚餐刚一热好，她就剥掉外皮，露出里面一根干瘪胡萝卜。

Ernie and his friend Hannah came to work at the same Shrivel fig as Harry and Ron.

厄尼和他朋友汉娜过来和哈利、罗恩在同一株无花果上干活。

Remind them that without you, they'd shrivel up and die!

提醒他们，没有你，他们枯萎而死！

In his other hand, he held his wand, trying to coax from his own chest the shrivelled, hairy heart.

他另一只手里，握着他魔杖，他诱劝那颗缩、长毛心脏离开自己胸膛。

If the idea of daydreaming seems luxurious, it may be because our attention spans have shriveled over the last two decades.

如果大脑放空听起来是很奢侈事情，那可能是因为我们注意力持续时间在过去20年里已经缩短了。

Each day, with strength and shame, Mary trudged to the letterbox in hope, only to swivel, shrivel and slink back inside.

每天她心怀羞愧却鼓足勇气，满怀希望步履蹒跚地凑信箱，却只能晃晃悠悠，磕磕绊绊，灰不溜秋地躲回屋里。