drought

英 [dra?t] 美[dra?t]

反義詞

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復(fù)數(shù):?droughts;

1. dry => drought.
2. 類似：high => height, may => might.
3. Drought:?照他。熾熱的陽(yáng)光照在大地上----干旱，干旱時(shí)期。

drought 旱災(zāi)

詞源同dry, 干的，干旱的。引申義旱災(zāi)。

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 drugae, drugoe "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.

2. Experts believe that the coming drought will be extensive.: 專家們認(rèn)為即將發(fā)生的旱災(zāi)將侵襲大片地區(qū)。

3. In fact many food crops failed because of the drought.: 實(shí)際上，因?yàn)楦珊担芏嗉Z食作物歉收。

4. Drought has left more than two million people close to starvation.: 干旱讓兩百多萬(wàn)人瀕臨餓死。

5. The drought there is stretching American resources.: 那里的旱災(zāi)正在耗盡美國(guó)的財(cái)力物力。