美 [haɪ ənd draɪ]
无助的，被抛弃的：指处于无法得到帮助或被遗弃的境地。
干地，不受水淹：指处于水流或潮汐无法触及的地方。
on a beach
同义词： beached / high-and-dry(p)
... sink or swim 听任沉浮，不论好歹 high and dry 困境 first and last 整体看来，总的来说 ...
...的人，尤其是对基思·理查兹（Keith Richards）（“滚石”的吉他手——编者注），他们在1966年的名曲《孤立无援》（High and Dry）就被 认为是一首将乡村和摇滚充分结合的歌曲。
... hang-up （情感上的）障碍, 大难题 high and dry 被抛弃的，处于痛苦之中的 high and low 到处 ...
... hold your horses 放慢，等一等 high and dry 让某人陷入困境 a picky eater 吃饭挑剔之人 ...
Their yacht was left high and dry on a sandbank.
他们的帆船搁浅在沙丘上了。
Schools with better reputations will be flooded with applications while poorer schools will be left high and dry.
声誉好些的学校将会收到大量申请，而差些的学校则将陷入困境。
Tom took all the money and left me high and dry.
汤姆把所有的钱都拿走了，使我陷于困境。
Slowly the area became what visitors see today -- a dry land of high flat mesa tops and deep canyons formed through thousands of years by flowing rivers.
VOA : special.2010.07.05
Ford won't be left entirely high and dry if tastes trend back to bigger cars.
As ASUS always does, we're left high and dry when it comes to pricing and availability.
Europe has been left high and dry, with neither a plan nor a strategy.