1·California could dry up and blow away.
加利福尼亚会干涸掉，然后随风而去。
2·Yemen imports 75% of its food, but even so it is using up scarce water supplies so fast that the aquifers most people rely on May dry up within a decade.
也门国家的食物有75%需要进口。即使如此，也门对稀乏淡水资源的消耗之快足以让多数民众赖以生存的蓄水层可能会在10年之内干涸。
3·Moreover, some of the new factories in America have been wooed by subsidies that may soon dry up. But still, the new economics of labour arbitrage will make a difference.
此外，在美国一些新的工厂已经拉拢的补贴可能很快就会干涸，但是尽管如此，劳动力套利在新经济体中将仍有重要意义。
4·But one of the lessons of the credit crunch is that Banks are still important underwriters of liquidity when markets dry up.
但是信用危机的一个教训就是，在市场干涸的时候，银行仍然是流动性的重要承销者。
5·"Once they start mining the mountain will be bulldozed and the rivers will dry up and our livelihood will be lost," he says. "We will become fish out of water."
“一旦他们开始开矿，大山将被夷为平地，河流会干涸，我们会失去维生方式，”他说道，“我们会成为离水之鱼。”