drought

1 Their cattle died in the drought in the summer of 1907.

2 But drought meant famine, which would hit the women and children the hardest, so the villagers rejected that choice.

3 It was then too that the holy men at Laguna and Acoma warned the people that the balance of the world had been disturbed and the people could expect droughts and harder days to come.

4 A fifth year of drought is expected to have dramatic effects on the california economy.

连续五年的干旱,据估计会对加利福尼亚州的经济产生显著的影响.

5 They’d been selling cattle to pay my school fees, and between that and the drought, there weren’t many left.

6 Always looked like a coyote in the middle of a drought.

7 Fedaral officials have declared all counties in Alabama a drought disaster area.

联邦政府官员已经宣布阿拉巴马州的所有县城为旱灾区.

8 A prolonged drought had necessitated the introduction of water rationing.

一场持续的干旱使定量供水的引进成为必需。

9 With a disproportionate number of Hampton citizens earning a living from the liquor industry in the early days of the twentieth century, the alcohol drought that was rolling across the country was potentially devastating.

10 The laughter drought has been particularly pronounced at NBC.

情景喜剧的枯竭在美国国家广播公司(NBC)尤其明显.

11 The river is nearly gone now because of the drought.

12 There was a terrible drought once, with all the land crying out for water and the sky quite empty of clouds.

13 Like Japan, which exports consumer electronics and imports beef from the United States and wheat from Australia, Chichen Itza apparently traded its way through the drought.

14 In the long, strange drought we were having in place of last year’s rainy season, soft dust had spread across our yard in broad white patches.

15 When the drought was just a normal drought, before the intense water restrictions, the fountain attracted mountain lions.

16 “When the drought ends and the rains return,” Nali said, “I want to have vegetables again.”

17 The problem was the books were written by white people who did not think about drought or winter blizzards or dry thistles, which the cattle had to live with.

18 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.

19 Both declines have been laid to drought, but this is contested.

20 Nothing to be had from my efforts, for the vines and vegetables had withered in the long weeks of drought.

1 旱灾

droughty

2 干旱

dry arid xeric droughty thirsty unwatered thirst thirstiness

3 干燥

dry arid husky unwatered drily xero- dehumidify desiccate pulpless exsiccative moisture-free dried thirsty dried-up parching secco droughty exsiccation xeransis xerosis seasoning thirst exsiccate desiccant desiccated waterless siccative dehydration barbecue dehydrate

4 干渴

droughty parch

5 缺乏

little poor thin missing devoid deficient wanting destitute stingy lacking privative exiguous absence poverty deficit famine scarcity dearth privation destitution indigence need want fail lack in need fresh out of in straits for be empty of run low narrow void miserable scarce stringent scant scanty out short default failure defect deficiency strait defection paucity penury poorness pinch short coming

6 口渴

thirst dry parched athirst thirsty droughty