parched的意思|parched的解释-里氏词典

parched [pɑ:tʃt]

a. 炒过的, 焦的, 干透的

parched

[ adj ]

dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight

<adj.all>

a vast desert all adust

land lying baked in the heat

parched soil

the earth was scorched and bare

sunbaked salt flats

toasted or roasted slightly

<adj.all>

parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet

Parch \Parch\ (p[aum]rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Parched}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Parching}.] [OE. perchen to pierce, hence used of a
piercing heat or cold, OF. perchier, another form of percier,
F. percer. See {Pierce}.]
1. To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire,
as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.

Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. --Lev.
xxiii. 14.

2. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth
is parched from fever.

The ground below is parched. --Dryden.

But a high-pressure system anchored over the lower Ohio Valley kept skies mostly clear from the parched Plains to the East Coast.
One of the largest fires so far this year burned 58,300 acres of parched timber and grasslands in and near the Custer National Forest along the Montana-South Dakota border.
After months of nothing but sunshine and blue skies, rains finally are falling on Italy's parched croplands.
But state officials said North Dakota needs more than that as it braces for a third straight year of parched pastures and shrinking lakes.
The snow was welcomed in parched southern Colorado.
He predicted that food costs would moderate as well, especially if more rain falls in the parched Midwest.
Today's forecast called for scattered showers and thunderstorms in many parts of the nation _ except the parched Midwest.
Come New Year's Eve I had no parched tree to carry down to the basement and no trail of dried needles to be swept up.
The dual rallies were touched off by falling commodity prices, which came in reaction to rain in the parched Farm Belt.
The sound of temple bells drifted on the evening breeze and, in the parched section of the lake, schoolboys played cricket with a home-made bat. Later I returned to Sanjay's Rooftop Restaurant.
The storm, which had been expected to help replenish parched soil in that important wheat-growing region, instead slammed into the Midwest.
Rains that began in mid-August and continued into early September "provided much needed relief to parched areas of the Midwest and Southeast," President Reagan's interagency drought committee said Friday.
MORE, After two years of drought, the Lone Star State was badly parched.
Ernest Simon, cotton specialist at Prudential Securities, said, "That's what the parched area needed.
Thunderstorms dumped locally heavy rain on parts of Texas on Sunday, and thunderstorms also were scattered over the parched Midwest and the South.
Lyng, wearing a "Think Rain" button, inspected the 285-acre farm of Ken and Mary Ellen Falch as part of a 10-state tour through the parched corn belt.
When the sun beats down on this remote corner of Maine this summer, campers will refresh their parched throats with drinks cooled by ice cut months earlier from the sprawling lake glistening at their doorsteps.
President Reagan may visit the parched Midwest, although no such trip is yet on his public schedule, Reagan's spokesman said after announcing an interagency panel appointed by the president to deal with the widespread drought.
Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. has purchased newspaper advertising space across the nation to repeat its denial that it reneged on a drought insurance offer to farmers in the parched Midwest.
Qin's terracotta army was discovered by peasants from a local commune who were digging a new well to irrigate their parched soil in March 1974 following a winter drought.
However, farm income excluding subsidies fell $3.2 billion in August, more than four times the July decline of $700 million. Analysts blamed the slippage on the Farm Belt drought that shriveled crops and parched pastures.
The agency contributed to Philadelphia charities, but the sight in 1988 of struggling farmers and parched Midwest fields on the television news sparked something in Rosenbluth's imagination.
In a year when all things Japanese are fashionable you could order ingredients such as parched laver seaweed, bonito flakes, Japanese noodles, tofu, sake and Sapporo beer.
Almost 1,000 people have died of starvation in a parched southern town that hasn't received relief food for about a year, and most of the deaths occurred in recent weeks, a Sudanese official said Tuesday.
The wet-weather pattern that drenched parts of the upper Midwest over the weekend continued on Tuesday, bringing rain to the region's parched southern and western portions.
The Iowa National Guard began delivering drinking water Monday to communities in six southern Iowa counties parched by two consecutive years of drought.
Politics must stop at the parched field's edge." The government, meanwhile, declared Ohio and Missouri disaster areas because of the drought, making farmers in those states eligible for emergency low-interest loans, officials from both states said.
Officials in parched communities in the Midwest and Southeast, the regions hit hardest, fretted over weekend forecasts and debated canceling Fourth of July fireworks for fear that sparks could start timber and brush fires.
SOYBEANS AND GRAINS: Forecasts of rain in much of the parched Midwest pushed soybean futures prices lower.
The main beneficiaries will be farmers in parched parts of the Great Plains and western Corn Belt, where last year's devastating drought still lingers, and in parts of the South, where floods have wiped out rice and cotton crops.

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