Rivers shrank and crops shriveled in the fields.

河水干涸了，地里的庄稼枯萎了。

Uncle Vernon's rations turned out to be a packet of crisps each and four bananas. He tried to start a fire but the empty crisp packets just smoked and shriveled up.

弗农姨父弄来吃的东西也只是每人一包薯片四根香蕉。他想把火生起来，但薯片的空包装袋只冒了一股烟，之后就卷缩成一堆灰烬了。

Till thy skin shrivels up and thou art a skeleton!

一直跳到你的身体干缩成为一架骸骨。

Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.

你的财富、名望权力将萎缩到无关紧要的地步。

The drunks adrift on the edges of the picture seem to be shrivelling, like moths, in the burning glare of these three false suns.

漂浮在画面边缘的醉鬼看起来像是飞蛾，在这三个“太阳”燃烧的刺眼光芒下，逐渐枯萎。

“Their hearts must be husks, ” he sneered inwardly, as he observed the antics of the young parents around him, “shrivelled by the demands of these mewling offspring! ”

“他们的心肯定都成了空壳，”看到周围年轻父们的滑稽行为，他暗自讥笑道，“被这些啼哭着的娃娃们弄得束手无策！”

I'm at a Band 6 and he's got a Band 7 and he's got a Band 7 and she got her Band 7.5 and you think everybody else is progressing and you're stuck on your own here and your confidence shrivels up.

我是 6 分水平，他得了 7 分，他得了 7 分，她得了 7.5 分，你认为其他人都在进步，你却原地踏步，你的信心萎缩了。

His insides seemed to shrivel with embarrassment.

他的五脏六腑似乎都因尴尬而缩成了一团。

Disabling the messengers of the gene that encodes a receptor protein called TGF beta-R2, which is found on cell surfaces, caused cells that had once been resistant to Xalkori to shrivel in its presence.

TGF beta-R2是一种存在于细胞表面的蛋白质受体，只要破坏编码这种受体DNA的信使RNA，就能消除细胞对Xalkori的抗药性。

So when levels of glucose are super high in the blood (meaning it's a hyperosmolar state), water begins to leave the body's cells and enter the blood vessels, leaving the cells relatively dry and shriveled rather than plump and juicy.

所以当血糖水平特别高时，意思是它在一种高渗状态，水逐渐离开细胞进入到血管里，这让细胞变得干燥皱缩，而不是丰满多汁的。

Animal cells shrivel up, and in plant cells, the membrane and cytoplasm shrink away from the cell wall, causing the cell to become flaccid.

动物细胞会萎缩，而植物细胞的细胞膜细胞质会从细胞壁上收缩，导致细胞变得松弛。

Harry took Malfoy's shrivel fig as Ron set about trying to repair the damage to the roots he now had to use.

哈利拿过马尔福的无花果，这时罗恩开始设法修复现在他不得不用的根。

6 On another Sabbath he went into the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was shriveled.

6 又有一个安息日、耶稣进了会堂教训人．在那里有一个人右手枯干了。

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的事情，那可能是因为我们的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到信箱，却只能晃晃悠悠，磕磕绊绊，灰不溜秋地躲回屋里。

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

我的意思是，所有的植物生长都需要水，没有水，植物就会枯萎死亡。

But by then, anything rail-related was doomed anyway, and the company shriveled until it closed its location in 1950.

但到那时，任何铁路相关的东西都注定要失败，公司萎缩，直到 1950 年关闭了其所在地。

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，咬下去的感觉就像试图扎破一个瘪掉的气球。

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

厄尼他的朋友汉娜过来哈利、罗恩在同一株无花果上干活。

The leaves change colour, then shrivel.

【shrivel】树叶变了颜色，然后干枯了。