| 1. | A glimmer of smile came to the dry lips .
干枯的嘴唇漾出一丝笑意。 |
| 2. | Whatever his wetness, his brains were dry enough .
不管他有多湿，他心里却非常干枯。 |
| 3. | The frost has withered the plants .
霜使草木干枯。 |
| 4. | The rat's light footfall was presently heard approaching over the parched grass .
突然干枯的草地上传来了老鼠轻快的脚步声。 |
| 5. | His wife, a tiny woman with the profile of a finely honed hatchet .
他的妻子是个矮小干枯的女人，从侧面上看去就像是一把短短的打磨精细的斧头柄。 |
| 6. | The turf was springy, neither damp as in may nor dry and hard as in august, when the sun would scorch it .
草坪很有弹性，既不象五月那么潮湿，也不象八月那么干枯坚硬--八月的太阳能把草皮烤焦。 |
| 7. | It was the two children who finally routed the nurse by reminding her of a desiccated carcass, blotched with brown, streaked with yellow, scarred by knives .
正是这两个孩子迫使护士联想起那个带着棕褐的斑点、灰黄的采纹和刀伤疤痕的干枯躯体。 |
| 8. | We wither like snakes under the dessert sun
在沙漠的太阳下，我们像蛇一样干枯。 |
| 9. | The reservoir dried up during the four - month drought
由于大旱四个月，水库干枯了。 |
| 10. | The old well was bricked up when it ran dry
旧井干枯以后被人用砖堵上了。 |
