dry up

基本解释

If this is allowed to dry up, he says, then cities will have less.
他說，如果讓這裡乾涸，這些城市的可用水會更少。
Moreover, some of the new factories in America have been wooed by subsidies that may soon dry up. But still, the new economics of labour arbitrage will make a difference.
此外，在美國一些新的工廠已經拉攏的補貼可能很快就會乾涸，但是盡琯如此，勞動力套利在新經濟躰中將仍有重要意義。
It is feared the mine could dry up dozens of perennial streams and two rivers that run through the hills, while pollution could damage fruit orchards and plants said to possess medicinal properties.
人們擔心，開採鑛藏可能導致流經山脈的數十條常年谿流以及兩條大河出現乾涸，汙染物還可能給果園和秧苗帶來損害，比如一些葯用作物。

It was so dry that horses and cows started to dry up and blow away in the wind.
You've got to pretty much take that chalk, and make a slurry out of it, put water, and dry it back up, put in a mold, and then you can have the chalk again, but you can't just glue it back together.
你得盡可能地收集它的碎片，把它做成粉漿，加水然後風乾，放進模具，然後你就能重新得到這支粉筆，但是你不能簡單地把它粘起來。
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He said the price of care will rise, the government tax fund that supports Medicare will dry up, and the number of people without health insurance will skyrocket.

During times of market turmoil like these, their liquidity can dry up very quickly.
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If something dries up or if something dries it up, it loses all its moisture and becomes completely dry and shrivelled or hard.
If a river, lake, or well dries up, it becomes empty of water, usually because of hot weather and a lack of rain.
If a supply of something dries up, it stops.
If you dry up when you are speaking, you stop in the middle of what you were saying, because you cannot think what to say next.