植物乾枯
這一支就是核心畫面本身：植物失水之後乾癟、變色的樣子。
adjective · B2
Used about a plant, leaf or flower that has lost its water and gone dry, thin and small, so that it is dead or close to dying.
枯萎的
核心畫面
You can picture withered as what a living thing looks like once the water has gone out of it. The pot on the that nobody watered over the holiday: the leaf that was full and soft is now dry, thin, curled and brown, and it stays that way. The word points at the finished state, not at the drying. When it moves to people and to a limb, the water is no longer the point; what carries over is the same shape — something living that is thinner, smaller and weaker than it should be.
可以想成一盆放假期間沒人澆水的植物。原本飽滿柔軟的葉子失去水分，變乾、變薄、捲起來，顏色也轉成褐色，而且就這樣定住了…更多收起
可以想成一盆放假期間沒人澆水的植物。原本飽滿柔軟的葉子失去水分，變乾、變薄、捲起來，顏色也轉成褐色，而且就這樣定住了。這個字指的是已經乾掉的結果，不是變乾的過程。等它用到人或手腳上時，水分就不是重點了，接過去的是同一個形狀：一個活的東西變得比原本更細、更小、更沒有力氣。Two branches
人與肢體：細、弱、沒有長好
把植物的畫面搬到身體上。這一支接過來的不是「乾」，而是「比原本更細、更小、更沒力氣」這個形狀。
adjective · C1
Used about a person who looks thin, weak and very old, with dry skin that has lost its fullness.
乾癟蒼老的