run dry

基本解释

The Yellow River is beginning to run dry.
黄河正在开始变得干涸。
But if more diluted weapons-grade uranium isn’t secured soon, the pipeline could run dry, with ramifications for consumers, as well as some American utilities and their Russian suppliers.
但是如果更多稀释了的武器级的铀没有很快保存，输送管道很快就会干，从而损害消费者，及一些美国的公用公司和俄罗斯供应商。
A fourth of Earth’s river basins run dry before they reach the sea.
地球上有四分之一的河流在达到海洋之前就干涸掉了。

Members of Friends of the Earth Middle East say the Jordan could run dry unless something is done.
Intifar Sabre Abu Hassan, one of the women of the family, says she knows the taps will run dry by the afternoon, and then stay dry for several days ahead.

With the niche exception of vertical data collection applications, the pen has run dry.
ENGADGET: Switched On: Time to write off pen computing
The reason, say businessmen, is that the supply of suitably skilled blacks has run dry.
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