词汇 | parch |
释义 | parch verb[ T ] uk /pɑːtʃ/ us /pɑːrtʃ/ to dry something out because of too much heat and not enough rain: 使干枯,使干涸 The fierce sun parched the soil.烈日让土地干涸。 to lose moisture and become dry dryIt will take three hours for the paint to dry. dehydrateToo much coffee will dehydrate you. desiccatePlant pests will desiccate in dry air. dry (something) outIf you don't put the cake back in the cake tin, it will dry out. dry upThe lake dried up during the drought. parchThey will turn off the irrigation and parch the crops right before harvest. Dry weather, arid conditions & dryness aridity bone bone dryidiom dehydrate desertification desiccate dried drought dry (something) out dry something up dryness frazzled frizzled high and dry hyper-arid overdry parched sandstorm semi-dry sun-baked Examples of parchparch As the smoke wafts my way, my nostrils begin twitching, my throat becomes parched, and my resulting cough wakes me up. A typical group of parasynonyms contains: sweltering and breathless; parched; burning; searing and sear; scorching, scorched, and scorcher;, and roasting, roaster. For the purposes of recording and interpretation, parch marks are regarded as a specialised sub-category of crop mark. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To-day some of the great municipalities bring water scores of miles through areas which are parched in a dry season. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When he talks of this prairie as being parched, there are two sides to that question. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At all events we know that the prairie is parched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would go no way at all towards quenching the thirst of the parched. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I do not pretend that you might not drop these matches safely when the ground is not parched, or when there is not so much inflammatory material about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet the sun remains unmoving in the sky, parching and burning all the ground beneath. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They are still involved in their traditional occupation of grain parching. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In aerial photographs parch marks are clearly visible across the nearby countryside and indicate the original route of the line. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When the air returns to sea level on the other side of the mountains, it recompresses, warms and dries, parching the deserts. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This hot wind blows strongly, often for several days at a time, defying all attempts to keep the dust down, and parching all vegetation. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There is also an outer transverse series of four black spots on the orange parch in interspaces 2 to 5. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. What unites the two communities is their traditional occupation, which was grain parching. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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