It's no use pumping a dry well.

涸进汲水，无济于事。

He's paying a visit to Zoila, the farmer with the dried up well.

他正在拜访 Zoila，一个水井干涸了的农民。

They threw Joseph into a dry well.

他们把约瑟扔进一口干井里。

Take plenty of hot water, and be sure you dry them well.

带上大量热水，并确保将它们擦干。

And paper towels tend to dry things better, without making many microbes airborne.

纸巾更容易擦干东西， 不会让许多微生物在空气中传播。

If it rains, the laundry won't dry well.

下雨的话，衣服不太会干。

If I thought that book about olive oil was dry, well, this book was simply arid.

如果我认为那本关于橄榄油的书很枯燥，那么，这本书简直就是枯燥。

The weather almost always suited her, for if it was fine the clothes would dry well and if it rained, why, nothing was better for bleaching them.

天气几乎总是适合她，因为如果天气晴朗，衣服会干得很好，如果下雨，没有什么比漂白衣服更好的了。

And then after school, or sometimes before, or sometimes both, trekking four hours to the nearest water source, standing in long queues just to get a few drops from a drying well.

然后放学后， 有时放学前， 有时两者兼而有之，徒步四个小时到最近的水源， 排长队，只为从干涸的井里取几滴水。