Drought
[draʊt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a shortage of rainfall; 'farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season'.
(noun.) a prolonged shortage; 'when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought'.
整理:莉莲--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.
(n.) Thirst; want of drink.
(n.) Scarcity; lack.
吉莉安手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Dryness (of weather), aridity, drouth, want of rain.
安琪莉可錄入
解釋/意思:
n. dryness: want of rain or of water: thirst.—ns. Drought′iness Drouth′iness.—adjs. Drought′y Drouth′y full of drought: very dry: wanting rain thirsty.
杰德手打
例句/造句/用法:
- He succeeded, where Taft failed, in preventing that drought of invention which officialism brings. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The seasons most unfavourable to the crop are those of excessive drought or excessive rain. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This renders them liable to destruction in times of drought. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In the summer of 1911, prolonged drought in North Carolina lowered the rivers to such an extent that towns dependent upon them suffered greatly. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I then worked the lawn very carefully for signs and traces, but this drought has made everything as hard as iron. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- What wonder then, in time of siege, want, extreme heat, and drought, that it should make unaccustomed ravages? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- How disastrous a great drought might prove to the cattle of the Pampas is shown by the records of 1825 and of 1830. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The drought in Bengal, a few years ago, might probably have occasioned a very great dearth. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The drought which Reuben administered was of a sedative and narcotic quality, and secured the patient sound and undisturbed slumbers. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- She wasted like any snow-wreath in thaw; she faded like any flower in drought. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- When didst thou drink as deep a drought of water before, Holy Clerk of Copmanhurst? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- A cup of wine will do thee no harm, he added, filling and handing to the swineherd a richer drought than Gurth had ever before tasted. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It had fought gamely with floods and droughts, with cholera and panics, with desperadoes and with land thieves. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The crops upon Mars are always uniform, for there are no droughts, no rains, no high winds, and no insects, or destroying birds. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
校對:佩里