shrivel

🔗 释义中的汉语词

🧩 词形变化

💬 双语例句

1. Many Europeans believe that aid agencies like the World Bank will shrivel and die if left to depend on grants for income. But I believe that the problem could easily be solved by, say, giving the World Bank an endowment of rich-country bonds and permitting it to expend the interest.

   无可否认，在为穷国提供援助的正确方法上至今还存在激烈的争论，本届八国集团峰会将为这些辩论画上圆满的句号。 很多欧洲人认为如果完全依赖各国捐赠，世界银行这样的组织将很快走向枯萎和死亡。 但我认为这个问题可以轻而易举地解决，比如允许世界银行持有富国债券，并允许它自由支配由此产生的利息收入。

2. But the opposite is true, and it is important that those who care about the global trading system know what is happening. One hopes that this knowledge will trigger what I call the “Dracula effect”: expose that which would prefer to remain hidden to sunlight and it will shrivel up and die.

   在顺从的媒体和轻信的公众眼中，该协议被视为美国贸易领先地位的证明。 但真相恰恰相反，而那些关注全球贸易体系的人也有必要知道这究竟是怎么回事。 我希望这些知识能触发所谓的“吸血僵尸效应 ” ： 那些藏在暗处的东西能被曝光，并随之枯萎消亡。