喜樂美語
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    nB1

    /draʊt/

    A long time with little or no rain, so plants, animals, and people do not have enough water.

    乾旱

    複數 droughts

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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One way to picture it: month after month of sky with no rain in it. The reservoir line drops, the ground opens in cracks, crops give up. What makes it a drought is not one hot day but the length — the rain simply does not come back.

可以想成一個月接一個月，天空就是不下雨。水庫的水位線一路往下掉、地面裂開、作物撐不住。讓它成為 drought 的不…更多收起可以想成一個月接一個月，天空就是不下雨。水庫的水位線一路往下掉、地面裂開、作物撐不住。讓它成為 drought 的不是某一天特別熱，而是那個長度——雨遲遲沒有回來。台灣說的「乾旱」「缺水」講的就是這個狀態。

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Droughtname

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    A surname.

droughtnoun/ˈdɹaʊ̯t/

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    A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.

    • His village had faced a drought twice.
    • The weather looked like drought―a thoroughly wicked drought; if the rain did not come before long, their crops would be burnt up.
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    informalA longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport.

    • Sri Lanka ended their ten-game drought with a consolation win over Bangladesh.
    • Kane had been going through something of a drought by his own standards. His previous England goal came 500 days ago, in a Euro 2020 qualifier against Kosovo, and his header in Tirana ended a run of 496 minutes without scoring.
  • 3

    archaicdryness, aridness, dry heat

    • Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
    • The consequences are, that a few days of severe drought, in the early parts of summer, or even when the grain is ripening, is sometimes fatal to the crop on moss.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。