droughts

英 [draʊts]

美 [draʊts]

n.  久旱; 旱灾
drought的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 久旱;旱灾
  Adroughtis a long period of time during which no rain falls.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• It brings droughts and floods.
  它给人们带来了旱灾和水灾。
• Severe winters and summer droughts in2000,2001, and2002 resulted in massive livestock die-off and zero or negative GDP growth.
  2000年、2001年和2003年三年连续的冬季严寒和夏季干旱使大批牲畜死亡，GDP出现负增长。
• 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。
• The authors mapped specific hazards associated with climate change, focusing on floods, cyclones and droughts.
  一份审视了气候变化可能的人道主义后果的报告发现了全球的气候变化“热点地区”。这组作者刻画了与气候变化有关的特定风险，把重点放在洪水、气旋风暴和干旱上。
• Droughts, viruses, bacteria and parasites are all painfully natural.
  旱灾、病毒、细菌和寄生虫，全是给人类造成痛苦的自然物。
• In God's wisdom, those same weather patterns sometimes bring droughts or floods or earthquakes.
  以他的智慧，神也让气象规律带来旱灾、洪水和地震。
• Most dust storms are linked to long droughts, exacerbated by human activities like overgrazing and deforestation.
  大部分的沙尘暴都源于长期干旱，并由于诸如过度放牧和伐木等人类活动而更加恶化。
• Miguel found that modern-day witch-killings in Tanzania are correlated with droughts and floods.
  米格尔发现，当代坦桑尼亚杀害女巫案例与干旱和洪水有关。
• Over farming and droughts are problems in Swaziland and have led to major food shortages in the past.
  过度开垦和旱灾是斯威士兰的困境，也是过去粮食短缺的主因。
• South and Southeast Asia and parts of Latin America and Africa have seasonal droughts.
  亚洲的南部和东南部、拉丁美洲和非洲的部分地区遭受季节性旱灾。