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Of course, managers have to be able to say yes too, otherwise their organisations would shrivel up and die.

当然，经理也必须能说“是”，否则他们的组织将枯萎死亡。

Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance . It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.

不管是你得到的或是你欠别人的，可你的财产、名誉和权势也都会变成和你毫不相干的东西。

Were he now to back away from his UN bid, his clout among his own people would shrivel.

倘若他现在在他的联合国入联申请中有所退缩，那么他对自身民众的影响力就会大打折扣。

The paper started to shrivel and curl up in the heat.

那张纸在高温下开始起皱卷曲。

Lack of vitamin A causes membranes around the organs to shrivel, leaving them vulnerable.

缺少维生素A导致器官周围的膜萎缩，使它们不堪一击。

The bank predicts that the GDP of Malaysia and Cambodia will shrink by 1% and Thailand's economy will shrivel by 2. 7%.

世行预计，马来西亚和柬埔寨将萎缩1%，而泰国将达2.

Knowing that climate change could shrivel their harvests, wine growers can plan ahead, but planting for the future can be a gamble.

知道气候变化会减少他们收成的葡萄酒种植户们得以谋事在前，但为未来种植是场赌博。

If an organ is somehow severed from its body, it will shrivel and die. It cannot exist on its own, and neither can you.

假如一个器官与身体分离，就会萎缩死去，绝无法单独存在；你也是这样。

As house prices plunge and savings shrivel, divorcing couples are fighting over a shrinking cake.

随着房价跳水、积蓄萎缩，离婚夫妇现在争夺的蛋糕正在变小。

If you stay in that bathtub any longer, you'll shrivel up into a prune.

如果你再呆在水里，你要皱成一个干果了。

The support comes at a cost: the deal dilutes existing shareholders' capital by half and the dividend will shrivel.

贷款导致的损失：交易将现有股东的资本价值降低了一半，红利也有所减少。

In the absence of vultures, they have been reduced to rigging their towers with solar reflectors to shrivel the corpses.

如果没有兀鹫的话，帕西人就不得不在高塔上装备太阳反射装置来把死尸照枯。

To dry up or shrivel from or as if from loss of moisture .

干枯，枯萎因或似乎因失去水分而变干燥或枯萎。

Why finial superior from political and business circle feel so shrivel in face of financial crisis?

为什么政界和商界及金融界的顶尖高手面对金融危机却束手无策呢？！

As their contributions soar and Western ones stagnate or shrivel, the aid world is seeing genuine competition.

随着他们的贡献剧增而西方援助停滞或萎缩，援助国之间迎来真真的较量。

Unlike some plants that struggle to survive, lose the battle, shrivel and die, garden weeds are indomitable.

某些植物为了生存努力挣扎战斗，却最终以失败告终，枯萎死亡。

A judgment in Mayo's favour, they contend, will undermine existing patents and shrivel investment in personalised medicine.

偏向于梅奥的支持方争辩道这将破坏现有的专利及导致对个性化药品的投资减少。

If they move to another country, their chances of staying in touch with family members shrivel.

如果他们被跨国收养，他们与家庭成员保持联系的机会几乎没有了。

Unless drugs firms continually bring enough new products to market to replace lost revenues they will shrivel and die.

除非制药公司持续推出足够多的新产品以弥补收入损失，否则就会衰落甚至倒闭。

Oct. 5--Americans have seen their retirement savings shrivel, home equity evaporate and job security vanish.

十月五日，美国人看到自己的退休储蓄缩水，家庭权益和职业安全凭空消失。