The hot weather had shrivelled the grapes in every vineyard.
天气炎热，各家葡萄园的葡萄都蔫了。
In the nineteenth century slave traders decimated the population, which shrivelled to 111 people by 1877.
在19世纪，奴隶贩子使人口锐减，到1877年，奴隶人口减少到111人。
菠菜蔫了。
The habitat of lions has shrivelled.
狮子的栖息地变小了。
With time the pinna becomes shrivelled.
耳廓随之变成皱缩。
Private colleges' endowments' have shrivelled.
私立大学的捐赠款也在减少。
Elsewhere in the Arab world most Jewish communities have shrivelled.
在其他阿拉伯世界中绝大多数的犹太社会均已渐趋销声匿迹。
As consumer spending has slumped, the external imbalances have shrivelled.
随着消费者支出下降，外部失衡已经消褪。
Amid the smell of cooked books, foreign investors' confidence has shrivelled.
由于风闻账册数据遭到窜改捏造，外国投资者的信心大减。
Venture funding has shrivelled up in America, and Europe is not doing much better.
在美国，风险投资大量缩水，欧洲的情况也好不到哪里去。
"He continued by saying that he" shrivelled up "every time Star Wars was mentioned to him."
他接着说到：每当有人对他提起《星球大战》他就兴味索然。
The risk premium that investors usually demand for holding bonds over a longer period has shrivelled.
投资者在持有较长期债券时，通常要求获得风险溢价，而在这种情况下，长期国债的风险溢价已经大大降低。
Rochester -- his passion died as if a blight had shrivelled it up: he only asked -- What have YOU to say?
就仿佛蛀虫使植物枯萎一样，他的怒气消了，只不过问了一句，“你有什么要说的？”
It is used medically to test for dehydration, as the skin becomes wrinkled and shrivelled when dehydrated.
医学上用以测试是否脱水，因为脱水时皮肤会收缩、形成褶皱。
The custom of the British upper classes, civilian and military, has tailed away as that class has shrivelled.
随着英国上层阶级，平民和军人阶层规模的缩小，他们的一些传统也渐渐淡化。
You remember when you had to eat those miserable, shrivelled up quails the last time you were invited to their place!
你还记得上次被邀请去他们家你不得不吃那些痛苦，皱缩的鹌鹑！
NO SOONER had philanthropy become fashionable than the credit crunch shrivelled fortunes and the donations they sustain.
慈善活动刚刚成为一种时尚，信贷危机缩减了他们的财富和他们所给予的捐赠。
Old Mr. Wu took it and laid it reverently on his lap. He closed his eyes again, a faint smile of peace on his shrivelled lips.
吴老太爷接过来恭恭敬敬摆在膝头，就闭了眼睛，干瘪的嘴唇上浮出一丝放心了的微笑。
But with their retirement accounts shrivelled, and cleaning up crime scenes apparently a growth industry, some may not make the trip.
但当养老金缩水，而收拾残局又是个明显赚钱的行当，有些人就不走了。
Life, exactly like a blade of green leaf, will be shrivelled up and turn yellow as time wears on, but with its strong veins left to be clearly seen.
生命犹如一片绿叶，随着时间的流逝，慢慢变得枯黄，但它的叶脉还是那么清晰可见。
"Public interest in horse-racing in New York state has simply shrivelled up," says Bennett Liebman, who heads a racing think-tank at Albany Law School.
奥巴尼法律学院一家赛马研究所的负责人Bennett Liebman说：“在纽约州，公众对于赛马的兴趣已经减退。”
Other lines of income have also shrivelled, most importantly DVD sales, which have plummeted by up to 25% in some studios, partly as a result of piracy.
其他收入来源也都枯竭，在最重要的DVD销售中，一些制片商的销售额骤跌，幅度高达25%，部分损失是由盗版造成的。
Instead, the number of flotations had shrivelled to nearly zero by mid-September against a backdrop of market gyrations thanks to lousy economic news and the euro crisis.
然而由于负面经济新闻和欧元危机所带来的市场动荡，新上市公司的数目在9月中旬已近乎为零。
The bigger question for them is: can the miracle of the cerrado be exported, especially to Africa, where the good intentions of outsiders have so often shrivelled and died?
而对他们来说更大的问题是：塞拉多创造的农业奇迹可以被其他国家借鉴吗？ ，尤其是非洲，引进的好方法经常在这里行不通。
As flows to eastern Europe and Africa have shrivelled, Asia's share of the total flow of capital to the emerging world has gone from 61.3% in 2007 to 78.6% in the first half of 2010.
流向东欧和非洲的资金减少了，在所有流向新兴国家的资金中，亚洲所占的份额从2007年的61.3%上升到2010年上半年的78.6%。
As flows to eastern Europe and Africa have shrivelled, Asia's share of the total flow of capital to the emerging world has gone from 61.3% in 2007 to 78.6% in the first half of 2010.
流向东欧和非洲的资金减少了，在所有流向新兴国家的资金中，亚洲所占的份额从2007年的61.3%上升到2010年上半年的78.6%。
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