The leaves started to shrivel up.

那些树叶开始枯萎了。

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The paper started to shrivel and curl up in the heat.

那张纸在高温下开始起皱卷曲。

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Get the bulbs into the ground, or they will begin to shrivel.

把鳞茎种到地里，否则会开始干枯的。

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So we began to shrivel up inside.

如此一来，心灵便会枯萎，黯淡无光。

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If government debt continues to shrivel, markets can find new instruments to replace government securities as a benchmark.

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This wine is produced by leaving the grapes on the vine to shrivel and rot and not picking them until they are entirely encapsulated by ice.

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The row over the early payment of bonuses at Merrill Lynch shows yet again that insiders' interests come first (those to BofA staff, however, are likely to shrivel).

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