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drought

英[draʊt]
美[draʊt]

基本释义

  • n.久旱,旱灾

词性变化

实用例句

two years of severe drought

两年的严重旱灾

牛津词典

one of the worst droughts on record

有记载以来最严重的旱灾之一

牛津词典

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.

期刊摘选

The drought has intensified.

旱情加剧了.

《简明英汉词典》

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.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

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.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The drought did a lot of harm to the crops.

干旱给庄稼带来许多危害.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

They had to contend against drought.

他们必须跟干旱作斗争.

《简明英汉词典》

He has put his heart and soul into the task of combating the drought.

为了抗旱,他可没少操心.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

To combat drought and protect the seedlings is a matter of great urgency.

抗旱保苗,迫在眉睫.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

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.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The scarcity of fruit was caused by the drought.

水果供不应求是由于干旱造成的.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

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.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The crops failed because of the drought.

干旱造成农作物歉收.

《简明英汉词典》

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.

《简明英汉词典》

Hundreds of sheep perished that year because of drought.

那年由于干旱,几百头羊突然死去.

《简明英汉词典》

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.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The drought has eased up.

旱情已趋缓和.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The crops died during the drought.

干旱期间庄稼都枯死了.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Water allotments to farmers were cut back in the drought.

在干旱时期配给农民的水量减少。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

two years of severe drought

两年的严重旱灾

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

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。

柯林斯例句

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。

柯林斯例句

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。

柯林斯例句

The path was dry and slithery from the drought.

小路因干旱变得又干又滑。

柯林斯例句

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。

柯林斯例句

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。

柯林斯例句

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。

柯林斯例句

真题例句

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.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

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

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

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 B

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.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Some 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 B

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.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

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

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Droughts become more harmful than floods.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

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.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Poor countries suffer less from droughts economically.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

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

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. a temporary shortage of rainfall

  • 2. a prolonged shortage

同义词

deficiency,insufficiency,depletion,paucity,scantiness,barrenness,scarcity,scarceness,shortage,dearth,want,lack,

aridityspellwaterlessnessdrydroughtinessdehydration

反义词

n.干旱;旱灾

wet

其他释义

floodwet

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