Shrivel

(verb.) wither, as with a loss of moisture; 'The fruit dried and shriveled'.

克里斯整理

• If you do, Robert, I'll take Shakespeare away; and I'll shrivel up within myself, and put on my bonnet and go home. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• We've got to bust it completely, or shrivel inside it, as in a tight skin. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The girl did not answer, but she felt her heart shrivel within her. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The curtain drew up--shrivelled to the ceiling: the bright lights, the long room, the gay throng, burst upon us. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Contempt fell cool on Mr. Rochester--his passion died as if a blight had shrivelled it up: he only asked--What have _you_ to say? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It was not merely that they were weazened and shrivelled--though they were certainly that too--but they looked absolutely ferocious with discontent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• An Italian was grinding an organ before the shop, and a miserable little shrivelled monkey was sitting on the instrument. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• All was shrivelled and dried up, except these lights; her voice too was fearfully changed, as she spoke to me at intervals. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I clasped her shrivelled hand: Are you indeed so ill? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shrivelling up like ghosts at sunrise. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.

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