dry; desiccated
n.
desiccation
v.
dry up; run dry; go dry
dried-up river bed
resaca
加利福尼亚会干涸掉，然后随风而去。
California could dry up and blow away.
它几乎干涸了。
It is almost dried up.
这泉水早就干涸了。
The spring dried up long ago.
小溪已经干涸了。
The stream has dried up.
因此，这本书名为《追逐大海：迷失在中亚帝国的幽灵中》，讲述了一段从塔什干到卡拉卡尔的公路之旅。在卡拉卡尔，数百万人的生命因海洋的慢慢干涸而湮灭。
Hence this book, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, talks about a road trip from Tashkent to Karakalpakstan, where millions of lives have been destroyed by the slow drying up of the sea.
雨量不足，河流干涸。
The rains had failed and the rivers were dry.
村里的井已经干涸多年。
The weel in the village has been dry for years.
它们与地球上的河流系统非常相似，地质学家认为它们是早已消失的河流留下的干涸的河床。
They bear a strong resemblance to river systems on Earth, and geologists think that they are dried-up beds of long-gone rivers.
这眼山泉干涸了。
The mountain spring has run dry.
溪流在记忆中第一次干涸了。
Streams had run dry for the first time in memory.
如今撒哈拉大沙漠的干涸迫使许多人迁移到撒哈拉以南的非洲。
The drying up of what is now the Sahara desert had pushed many peoples to the south into sub-Sahara Africa.
他们在干涸的河床上发现了化石。
They found fossils in the dry riverbed.
井水已经干涸，我们需要找新的水源。
The well has dry up, and we need to find a new water source.
在气候特别湿润的年月里，平常干涸的河床下游可能会有水流动，因为地下水在那里位抬升到了地表以上。
In particularly wet years, short stretches of an otherwise dry stream-bed may have flowing water because the water table rises to intersect the land surface.
由于地下水位下降，灌溉井干涸，居于世界之首的中国小麦产量，已经从1997年1.23亿吨的峰值下降了8%。
As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.
一方面，大象的主要湖泊饮水处，也是他们唯一的水源，已经干涸了。
On the one hand, the elephants' main lake, their only water source (来源), dried up.
那个小池塘干涸了。
The little pond ran dry.
地下水通常聚集在河流流域，但在干旱地区，地下水也可能完全保留在干涸河床的表面之下。
Groundwater commonly collects in stream drainages but may remain entirely beneath the surface of dry stream-beds in arid regions.
死亡谷是一片沙漠平原，是加利福尼亚的一个干涸的湖床，四周群山环绕，在沙漠的地面上有巨大的岩石，有些重达数百磅。
Death valley is this desert plain, a dry lake bed in California surrounded by mountains and on the desert floor these huge rocks, some of them hundreds of pounds.
这片土地在夏天会干涸。
This land will dry up in the summer.
这个湖濒临干涸。
The lake is be close to drying up.
现在，所有的河流和湖泊不是干涸就是被污染了。
Now, all the rivers and lakes are either dry or polluted.
水库正在干涸，农民开始离开田地去寻找水源。
Reservoirs are drying up and farmers have begun to leave their land in search of water.
在过去的三个月里，他起得很早去接消防车，因为村里唯一的水库已经干涸了。
For the last three months, he has risen early to meet the fire truck because the village's only reservoir has dried up.
湖水因为缺雨而干涸了。
The lake water has dry up due to lack of rain.
他们的迁徙可能是人口增加引起的，这一人口增长是由人们逃离撒哈拉沙漠的干燥或干涸的迁移造成的。
Their migration may have been set in motion by an increase in population caused by a movement of peoples fleeing the desiccation, or drying up, of the Sahara.
咸海的干涸对当地生态系统造成了严重影响。
The drying up of the Aral Sea has had a severe impact on the local ecosystem.
当根多尔河（以前是村民的水源）迅速干涸时，赛迪曼意识到土地需要一些水。
Sadiman realized that the land was in need of some water when the Gendol River—previously the source of water for villagers—was quickly drying up.
His throat was dry from talking for a long time.
数千个湖泊已经干涸。
Thousands of lakes have dried up.
在热带地区中，山谷似乎更有利于树木生长，因为山谷更加不容易干涸、较少结霜，并且拥有更深的土壤。
In the tropics, the valleys appear to be more favorable because they are less prone to dry out, they have less frost, and they have deeper soils.
夏季时小溪是干涸的。
The arroyo is dry during the summer months.
该水池已经干涸，长满了欧洲蕨和芦苇。
The pool had dried up and was full of bracken and reeds.
相反，有径流从两端流进流出的池塘，在径流枯竭的时候也会干涸，地表水就明显占据主导地位。
Conversely, a pond with a stream flowing in one end and out the other, which dries up when the stream dries up, is clearly surface water dominated.
河床已经干涸了。
The riverbed has already dry.
这个地区多数村庄的水井都已干涸。
The wells in most villages in the region have run dry.
最成功的陆生植物群体是那些进化出了受精性细胞散布方法的群体，这些方法不依赖于水和防止发育中的胚胎干涸的结构。
The most successful groups of land plants are those that evolved methods of fertilized sex cell dispersal that are independent of water and structures that protest developing embryos from drying out.
旱灾期间，河流都干涸了。
During the drought the river dried up.
筹到的钱款将用来挖井眼，再将水抽入干涸的湖中。
The money raised will be used to dig bore holes to pump water into the dried-up lake.
包裹我们的皮肤能让我们体内的海洋不至于干涸。
Our bag of skin keeps our body's ocean from drying up.
很多小块的大陆正在形成创造了无数新的地貌景观，新气候 新环境，山脉拔地而起，干涸荒芜的沙漠也随之形成。
Smaller continents were forming, creating countless new landscapes with new climates and environments, rising mountain ranges and dry inhospitable deserts.
◎ 干涸 gānhé
[run dry;dry up] 河流、池塘等干枯无水
河流干涸
较深的北部,数百年后也可能干涸。——《死海不死》
◎ 干涸 gānhé
[dry] 没有水的
夏季的浅塘干涸现象
水分干竭。《晋书．卷七五．范汪传》：「而玄冬之月，沔汉干涸，皆当鱼贯而行，排推而进。」反润湿