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drought

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近义词aridity spell dry

反义词

n. 干旱；缺乏
n. (Drought)人名；(英)德劳特

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复数: droughts;

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1. dry => drought.
2. 类似：high => height, may => might.
3. Drought: 照他。炽热的阳光照在大地上----干旱，干旱时期。

中文词源

drought 旱灾

词源同dry, 干的，干旱的。引申义旱灾。

英英释意

1. a temporary shortage of rainfall

2. a prolonged shortage

英文词源

drought: drought: [OE] Etymologically, drought means simply ‘dryness’. The prehistoric Germanic base that produced English dry (and indeed drain) was *draug-, *drūg-. To this was added the suffix -th, used for creating abstract nouns from adjectives, as in length, strength, and truth; this gave Old English drūgath. The subsequent change of -th to -t (which began in the 13th century) is mirrored in such words as height and theft.
=> drain, dry
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.

考试真题

California has been facing a drought for many years now, with certain areas even having to pump freshwater hundreds of miles to their distribution system.

New research has found deep water reserves under the state which could help solve their drought crisis.

Uncommonly severe droughts brought on by global climate changes have led to forest-eating wildfires from Australia to Indonesia, but nowhere more acutely than in the Amazon.

Trees need more water as temperatures rise, but the prolonged droughts have robbed them of moisture, making whole forests easily cleared of trees and turned into farmland

The picture worsens with each round of El Nino, the unusually warm currents in the Pacific Ocean that drive up temperatures and invariably presage (预示) droughts and fires in the rain forest.

"The yield is never going to be high," Farrant says, so these plants will be targeted not at Iowa farmers trying to squeeze more cash out of high-yield fields, but subsistence farmers who need help to survive a drought like the present one in South Africa

It has consequences: South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its com crop this year.

Some plants store reserves of water to see them through a drought; others send roots deep down to subsurface water supplies.

They may be able to handle a drought of some length, and many people use the term "drought tolerant" to describe such plants, but they never actually stop needing to consume water, so Farrant prefers to call them drought resistant.

A multi-year drought (干旱) in south-east Brazil is becoming worse.

Droughts become more harmful than floods.

Even this increase could sink some islands, worse drought (干旱) and drive a decline of up to a third in the number of species.

Poor countries suffer less from droughts economically.

Though heavy rains brought about by el nino may relieve the drought in California, they are likely to cause surface flooding and other disasters.

Already, since 2010, drought and insects have killed over 100 million trees in California, most of them in 2016 alone, and wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres.

That's only a small share of the total acreage that could benefit, about half a million acres in all, so it will be vital to prioritize areas at greatest risk of fire or drought.

实用场景例句

two years of severe drought: 两年的严重旱灾

one of the worst droughts on record: 有记载以来最严重的旱灾之一

Drought and famines have killed up to two million people here.: 旱灾和饥荒夺去了这里200万人的生命。

He told a press conference that Spain was suffering one of the worst droughts of the century.: 他在记者招待会上说西班牙正遭受着本世纪最严重的旱灾之一。

The tide of public opinion is turning against smoking.: 公共舆论转向反对吸烟.

The drought has intensified.: 旱情加剧了.

True, the drought is serious, but it can't scare us.: 旱情诚然是严重的, 但它吓不倒我们.

Money and food were sent to the impoverished drought victims.: 给贫困的灾民送去了救济金和粮食.

The drought did a lot of harm to the crops.: 干旱给庄稼带来许多危害.

They had to contend against drought.: 他们必须跟干旱作斗争.

He has put his heart and soul into the task of combating the drought.: 为了抗旱,他可没少操心.

To combat drought and protect the seedlings is a matter of great urgency.: 抗旱保苗,迫在眉睫.

All the villagers , men and women , old and young, took part in the battle against the drought.: 全村不论男女老幼, 都参加了抗旱斗争.

The scarcity of fruit was caused by the drought.: 水果供不应求是由于干旱造成的.

To meet an old friend in a distant land is like refreshing rain after a long drought.: 久旱逢甘霖,他乡遇故知.

The crops failed because of the drought.: 干旱造成农作物歉收.

The ground is as hard as stone after the drought.: 长期干旱后土地硬得就像石头一样.

Hundreds of sheep perished that year because of drought.: 那年由于干旱,几百头羊突然死去.

Most parts of African countries have suffered from drought in recent years.: 近几年来非洲大部分地区都久旱无雨.

The drought has eased up.: 旱情已趋缓和.

The crops died during the drought.: 干旱期间庄稼都枯死了.

Water allotments to farmers were cut back in the drought.: 在干旱时期配给农民的水量减少。

two years of severe drought: 两年的严重旱灾

The summer drought has dealt a heavy blow to the government's economic record.: 夏季的干旱已经对政府的经济业绩造成了沉重打击。

In fact, the panic is overdone. As the map shows, the drought has been confined to the south and east of Britain.: 事实上，人们有些过于恐慌。如地图所示，干旱仅限于英国的南部和东部地区。

The only reason I was divining for water was because of the drought.: 我之所以探寻水源是因为发生了旱灾。

The path was dry and slithery from the drought.: 小路因干旱变得又干又滑。

Experts believe that the coming drought will be extensive.: 专家们认为即将发生的旱灾将侵袭大片地区。

The UN wants to send food aid to 10 countries in Africa severely affected by the drought.: 联合国希望给非洲10个旱情严重的国家输送食物援助。

In fact many food crops failed because of the drought.: 实际上，因为干旱，很多粮食作物歉收。

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