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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