drought
drought 英 [draʊt] 美 [draʊt]
n. 干旱
名词复数:droughts
- When there is a drought somewhere, there's not enough rainfall. In certain areas, a drought can last for weeks, months, sometimes even years! Forget about running your lawn sprinkler during a drought; the water is needed for drinking, bathing, and toilet flushing.
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- n. 干旱
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1. The crops died during the drought.
干旱期间庄稼都枯死了。
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2. two years of severe drought
两年的严重旱灾
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3. one of the worst droughts on record
有记载以来最严重的旱灾之一
- drought (n.) Old English drugað, drugoð "drought, dryness, desert," from Proto-Germanic *drugothaz, from Germanic root *dreug- "dry" (cf high/height) with *-itho, Germanic suffix for forming abstract nouns (see -th (2)). Drouth was a Middle English variant continued in Scottish and northern English dialect and in poetry.
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