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Severe drought has claimed the lives of nearly two million people in this region.
严重的旱灾已导致该地区近200万人丧生。
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The press conference revealed that Spain was enduring one of the harshest droughts the country had faced in decades, according to the reporter.
新闻发布会上透露，据记者报道，西班牙正遭受着几十年来最严重的旱灾之一。
金山词霸
The tide of public opinion is turning against smoking.
公共舆论转向反对吸烟.
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The drought has intensified.
旱情加剧了.
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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.
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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.
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They had to contend against drought.
他们必须跟干旱作斗争.
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He has put his heart and soul into the task of combating the drought.
为了抗旱,他可没少操心.
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To combat drought and protect the seedlings is a matter of great urgency.
抗旱保苗,迫在眉睫.
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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.
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The scarcity of fruit was caused by the drought.
水果供不应求是由于干旱造成的.
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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.
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The crops failed because of the drought.
干旱造成农作物歉收.
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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.
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Hundreds of sheep perished that year because of drought.
那年由于干旱,几百头羊突然死去.
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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.
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The drought has eased up.
旱情已趋缓和.
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The crops died during the drought.
干旱期间庄稼都枯死了.
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The summer drought has dealt a heavy blow to the country's farming sector.
夏季的干旱已经对国家的农业部门造成了沉重打击。
金山词霸
In fact, the drought is clearly marked on the map, primarily affecting the south of Britain.
事实上，地图上清楚地标明了干旱，主要集中在英国的南部。
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The drought is the only reason I was divining for water.
旱灾是我探寻水源的唯一原因。
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The drought left the path dry and slippery.
干旱使得小路又干又滑。
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The extensive drought is expected to occur soon, according to experts.
专家们预计，大范围的旱灾即将发生。
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The UN wants to deliver nutritional assistance to ten drought-stricken African nations.
联合国希望向十个受干旱重创的非洲国家提供营养援助。
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Actually, a lot of food harvests were lost because of the drought.
实际上，因为干旱，很多粮食收成损失了。
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The prolonged drought is depleting both the financial and material resources of America.
持续的旱灾正在耗尽美国的财力和物力资源。
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The severe drought has significantly disrupted agricultural production.
严重的干旱显著影响了农业生产。
金山词霸
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
词根: dry
表示"干"
dry干→adj.干的,口渴的 v.[使]干燥,[使]变干
dry干+ain表名词→使……干了→流干→耗尽→排水沟
dry过去分词形式→drought干旱, 缺乏
dry干+ain表名词→使……干了→流干→耗尽→排水沟
dry干→adj.干的,口渴的 v.[使]干燥,[使]变干
干旱
干旱 长期无雨或少雨导致土壤和空气干燥的现象。
干旱
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。