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

• During droughts, many farm animals get sick or die.
  在干旱时期，很多耕畜都生病或者死亡了。
• 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。
• Such as floods and droughts,@ he said at the summit.
  如洪水和干旱，他在地球峰会上说。
• In the last few years China has experienced increasingly frequent and severe droughts, water shortages and floods.
  过去几年里，中国经历了越来越频繁和严重的干旱、缺水和洪灾。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• More frequent droughts and crop failures breed hunger and conflict in places where hunger and conflict already thrive.
  日趋频繁的干旱和粮荒在饥馑和战乱已然深重的地区进一步加深了灾难。
• East Asia and the southern US are promised more hurricanes and cyclones, Africa and south Asia droughts and disease.
  东亚和美国南部地区可能遭受更多的飓风和低气压，非洲和南亚则将出现干旱和疾病。
• 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。