parching
v. (使)干透,变干枯;烤,烘(parch 的现在分词)
例句
The parching threatens a quarter of the country’s crop.
龟裂的土地威胁着这个国家四分之一的收成。
The parching threatens a quarter of the country's crop.
It was not a soft melancholy-the disease of the affections; but a parching, withering agony.
这不是一种柔和的痛苦——相思病那种,而是一种令人焦灼、枯萎的痛苦。