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Shrivelled is the British way of writing the -ed form of . It can be the past: the leaves shrivelled in the heat. It can also sit in front of a noun, like an adjective: a shrivelled apple, shrivelled skin. The picture is the same as — smaller, dry, lined. You will see with one l in American English; both are the same word, and in Britain the double l is the usual dictionary form. It is a describing word more than a fancy one. Though actually, it does two jobs at once: size and texture. A small apple is just small; a shrivelled apple has gone past its best. People also say it of hopes or profits that have dried up, keeping that same feel.
乾癟的、皺縮的
組成shrivel + -ed (the ending that makes the past, or an adjective meaning “having that done”).
同家族的字
- shrivelthis is just shrivel with -ed on the end
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
shrivelledadj
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Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
- A prune is a shrivelled plum.
- All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.
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Collapsed in size.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。