droughts是什么意思？

droughts

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• n. 干旱（时期）( drought的名词复数 )；

例句

• Meteorologists say we are facing twenty years of colder weather and regional droughts. 气象学家说我们面临着二十年较寒冷的天气和地区性干旱.
• Farmers'problems continued , and their suffering was compounded by serious droughts in 1986 and 1988. 1986年和1988年的干旱使农民的处境更是雪上加霜.
• Some of these droughts must have been severe. 有一些旱灾想必是严重的.
• Droughts and accentuation of soil erosion cause havoc in such areas , making their rehabilitation extremely difficult. 旱灾和严重的土壤侵蚀造成巨大的破坏, 恢复起来极为困难.
• He told a press conference that Spain was suffering one of the worst droughts of the century. 他在记者招待会上说西班牙正遭受着本世纪最严重的旱灾之一。

英语六级真题

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

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-VAR
  久旱;旱灾
  A drought is a long period of time during which no rain falls.
  例句
  Drought and famines have killed up to two million people here. 旱灾和饥荒夺去了这里200万人的生命。 He told a press conference that Spain was suffering one of the worst droughts of the century. 他在记者招待会上说西班牙正遭受着本世纪最严重的旱灾之一。