dry是什么意思？

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.

Physical symptoms listed include dry eyes, backaches, skipping meals, poor personal hygiene (卫生) and sleep disturbances.

That part of Brazil is very dry and farming is often difficult there.

A dry mouth may reduce taste sensitivity, but taste is restored by drinking fluids.

Although in-flight infections thrive in dry environments like airplanes, your risk of getting sick from an airplane is actually low because of the air filters used.

El niños are associated with abnormally dry conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia.

They can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and South America, even as southern Africa experiences dry weather.

In poor, dry regions, untreated wastewater is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.

Being stationed in Antarctica involves adapting to life on the planet's driest, windiest and coldest continent, yet each nation manages to make itself at home.

The dry statistics ought to inform the ongoing deficit debate, because a budget is not just a catalog of programs and taxes.

But the first bite was a pleasant surprise, a little dry and lacking of taste, but at least a wing didn't get stuck in my throat.

In planting and harvest times one can see their bearded men working the fields with horses and their women hanging out the laundry in neat rows to dry.

In poor, dry regions, untreated waste water is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.

It comes and goes without much warning, and a field of lush leafy greens one year can dry up and blow away the next.

It's a little dry and salty.

Many different kinds of plants have developed tactics to weather dry spells.

Most seeds can wait out the dry, unwelcoming seasons until conditions are right and they sprout.

Resurrection plants, defined as those capable of recovering from holding less than 0.1 grams of water per gram of dry mass, are different.

She is hard at work finding a way to take traits from rare wild plants that adapt to extreme dry weather and use them in food crops.

The ham is covered in salt to dry and preserve it, and left hung for up to two years.

The type of farming I'm aiming for is literally so that people can survive as it's going to get more and more dry, Farrant says.

When they detect an extended dry period, they divert their metabolisms, producing sugars and certain stress- associated proteins and other materials in their tissues.

While tasty, such seeds are delicate — they cannot bud and grow if they dry out as you may know if you've ever tried to grow a tree from an avocado pit.