drought 的定义
- a period of dry weather, especially a long one that is injurious to crops.
- an extended shortage: a drought of good writing.
- Archaic. thirst.
drought 近义词
dryness; shortage of supply
更多drought例句
- It has also been extremely dry in California, Oregon, and Washington this summer, with large sections of each state under “severe drought” conditions and some areas reaching “extreme drought.”
- We also just had a wet winter, meaning the reservoirs and soils aren’t as parched as they have been during past droughts.
- Cold summers, drought, famine and plague devastated societies around the world.
- That’s the amount the United Nations has agreed would prevent catastrophic climate change – like seas that swallow whole coastal cities, really, really bad wildfires and unbearable droughts.
- So the team only enters the deep chambers during periods of drought.
- It was captioned Preserve Your Forests From Destruction And Protect Your Country From Floods And Drought.
- Next, Borlaug helped develop more productive and drought-resistant strains of rice that became adapted widely in Asia.
- From the drought in California to the women of ENIAC, The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week.
- The drought is now killing off century-old California farms.
- Coping with drought and marginal soils was a continual struggle.
- Tobacco is a strong growing plant resisting heat and drought to a far (p. 018) greater extent than most plants.
- Conditions in the new country had gone from bad to worse, and if the season should experience another drought, the worst was come.
- One day she had heard a man say, "If there is a drought we shall have the devil to pay with our stock before winter is over."
- Of this we have a characteristic example in the ceremony of the aquaelicium, designed to produce rain after a long drought.
- A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.