喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/draʊt/乾旱

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

    示範例句 · Example

    A severe drought made the farmers' corn grow poorly this year.

    逐字一場嚴重的乾旱使農夫們的玉米今年長得很差。

    「drought」是名詞，核心意思是「很長一段時間幾乎不下雨、水不夠用」。比 dry 更重——dry 可以只是今天天氣乾燥，drought 是長時間缺雨，植物動物都受影響。常見說法：a severe drought、during the drought、end the drought。可以想成：雨被「關」了很久，土地一直渴著。

    常見搭配

    • a severe drought

      嚴重乾旱

      a very bad period with almost no rain

      A severe drought hit the valley last summer.

    • a long / prolonged drought

      長期／持久的乾旱

      a drought that lasts for a long time

      The region faced a prolonged drought for two years.

    • during the drought

      在乾旱期間

      in the time when the drought is happening

      People used less water during the drought.

    • end the drought

      結束乾旱

      to bring a drought to a close, often when rain returns

      Heavy rain finally ended the drought.

    • drought-stricken

      受乾旱打擊的

      badly hurt by a drought

      Helpers sent water to drought-stricken farms.

    • summer drought

      夏季乾旱

      a drought that happens in summer

      The summer drought left the grass yellow.

    • a goal drought

      進球荒

      a long time in sports with no goals scored

      The striker ended his goal drought with a late shot.

    意思相近

    dry spellwater shortage

    意思相反

    flooddownpourrainy season

core核心畫面

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。

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複數 droughts

意思相近

dry spellwater shortage

意思相反

flooddownpourrainy season

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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

  • 1

    A surname.

droughtnoun/ˈdɹaʊ̯t/

  • 1

    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.
  • 2

    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.

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