dry up

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If this is allowed to dry up, he says, then cities will have less.
他说，如果让这里干涸，这些城市的可用水会更少。
Moreover, some of the new factories in America have been wooed by subsidies that may soon dry up. But still, the new economics of labour arbitrage will make a difference.
此外，在美国一些新的工厂已经拉拢的补贴可能很快就会干涸，但是尽管如此，劳动力套利在新经济体中将仍有重要意义。
It is feared the mine could dry up dozens of perennial streams and two rivers that run through the hills, while pollution could damage fruit orchards and plants said to possess medicinal properties.
人们担心，开采矿藏可能导致流经山脉的数十条常年溪流以及两条大河出现干涸，污染物还可能给果园和秧苗带来损害，比如一些药用作物。

It was so dry that horses and cows started to dry up and blow away in the wind.
You've got to pretty much take that chalk, and make a slurry out of it, put water, and dry it back up, put in a mold, and then you can have the chalk again, but you can't just glue it back together.
你得尽可能地收集它的碎片，把它做成粉浆，加水然后风干，放进模具，然后你就能重新得到这支粉笔，但是你不能简单地把它粘起来。
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He said the price of care will rise, the government tax fund that supports Medicare will dry up, and the number of people without health insurance will skyrocket.

During times of market turmoil like these, their liquidity can dry up very quickly.
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If something dries up or if something dries it up, it loses all its moisture and becomes completely dry and shrivelled or hard.
If a river, lake, or well dries up, it becomes empty of water, usually because of hot weather and a lack of rain.
If a supply of something dries up, it stops.
If you dry up when you are speaking, you stop in the middle of what you were saying, because you cannot think what to say next.