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，地里的庄稼枯萎了。

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。

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。

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，咬下去的感觉图扎破一个瘪掉的气球。

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

关于过度劳累，你可能会想到变黑、皱缩、破损的蜡烛灯芯。

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

他年纪非常老了，皮肉皱缩得很害，许多人都说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，她那张满是皱纹的脸都气歪了。

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

看上去都枯萎了。 -我想莴苣也脱水了吧。

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

躺在沙发上把一条小毯盖在她萎缩的双腿上。

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，植物会枯萎死亡。

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

然后他找到了——斯拉格霍恩在魔药课上收去的那块腰状的石头。

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的表皮才是成熟的标志。

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

盒里装着半打干瘪的褐色物体，与其说石头，不如说干腰。

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

厄尼和他的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，他们会枯萎而死！

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

他的另一只手里，握着他的魔杖，他想诱劝那颗皱缩的、长毛的心脏离开自己的胸膛。

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。

The beauty that had bloomed in a fierce summer shrivels and decays.

盛开于严酷夏日的美丽凋谢凋谢。