drought
drought
英[draʊt]美[draʊt]
n.久旱，旱灾；
复数：droughts;
例句
The long drought dried up all the wells.长期的干旱使所有的井都干涸了。
Hundreds of sheep perished that year because of drought.那年由于干旱, 几百头羊突然死去。
A severe drought hit southwest China, leaving more than 16 million people and 11 million livestock with drinking water shortages.一场严重的旱灾侵袭了中国西南部，造成超过1600万人及1100万牲畜饮水困难。
The crops failed because of the drought.干旱造成农作物歉收。
The drought has intensified.旱情加剧了.
A prolonged drought had necessitated the introduction of water rationing.由于持续干旱，用水需要实行配给了。
He has put his heart and soul into the task of combating the drought.为了抗旱,他可没少操心.
They are waging warfare with drought.他们正同干旱作斗争.
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.
There is an account of this drought in the local chronicles.地方志中有关于这次旱灾的记载。
英语六级真题
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.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文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
出自-2013年6月阅读原文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.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文"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
2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section BIt has consequences: South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its com crop this year.
2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section BSome plants store reserves of water to see them through a drought; others send roots deep down to subsurface water supplies.
2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section BThey 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.
2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
N-VAR
久旱;旱灾
A drought is a long period of time during which no rain falls.
例句
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*严重的旱灾之一。英汉词典释义
n.
干旱(时期)；久旱；旱灾
The crops failed because of the drought.干旱造成农作物歉收。A severe drought hit southwest China, leaving more than 16 million people and 11 million livestock with drinking water shortages.一场严重的旱灾侵袭了中国西南部，造成超过1600万人及1100万牲畜饮水困难。英英词典释义
Noun
1. a temporary shortage of rainfall
2. a prolonged shortage
行业词典
农学： 干旱；
大气科学： 干旱；长期无雨或少雨导致土壤和空气干燥的现象。；
林学： 干旱；
水利： 旱灾；由于天然降水和人工灌溉补水不足，致使土壤水分欠缺，不能满足农作物、林果和牧草生长的需要，造成减产或绝产的灾害。；
药学： 旱灾；
