drought

英 [draʊt] 美 [draʊt]
  • n. 干旱;缺乏
  • n. (Drought)人名;(英)德劳特

助记提示


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。

中文词源


drought 旱灾

词源同dry, 干的,干旱的。引申义旱灾。

英文词源


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.

双语例句


1. The path was dry and slithery from the drought.
小路因干旱变得又干又滑。

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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。

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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。

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

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5. The drought there is stretching American resources.
那里的旱灾正在耗尽美国的财力物力。

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