drought

英[draʊt] 美[draʊt]

反义词wet

复数: droughts;

1. dry => drought.
2. 类似：high => height, may => might.
3. Drought: 照他。炽热的阳光照在大地上----干旱，干旱时期。

drought 旱灾

词源同dry, 干的，干旱的。引申义旱灾。

drought: drought: [OE] Etymologically, drought means simply ‘dryness’. The prehistoric Germanic base that produced English dry (and indeed drain) was *draug-, *drūg-. To this was added the suffix -th, used for creating abstract nouns from adjectives, as in length, strength, and truth; this gave Old English drūgath. The subsequent change of -th to -t (which began in the 13th century) is mirrored in such words as height and theft.
=> drain, dry
drought (n.): Old English drugað, drugoð "drought, dryness, desert," from Proto-Germanic *drugothaz, from Germanic root *dreug- "dry" (cf high/height) with *-itho, Germanic suffix for forming abstract nouns (see -th (2)). Drouth was a Middle English variant continued in Scottish and northern English dialect and in poetry.

2. Experts believe that the coming drought will be extensive.: 专家们认为即将发生的旱灾将侵袭大片地区。

3. In fact many food crops failed because of the drought.: 实际上，因为干旱，很多粮食作物歉收。

4. Drought has left more than two million people close to starvation.: 干旱让两百多万人濒临饿死。