drought
英[dra?t]
美[dra?t]
- n. 干旱；缺乏
- n. (Drought)人名；(英)德勞特
詞態變化
復數:?droughts;
助記提示
1. dry => drought.
2. 類似：high => height, may => might.
3. Drought:?照他。熾熱的陽光照在大地上----干旱，干旱時期。
中文詞源
drought 旱災
詞源同dry, 干的，干旱的。引申義旱災。
英文詞源
- 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 drugae, drugoe "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.
雙語例句
- 1. The path was dry and slithery from the drought.
- 小路因干旱變得又干又滑。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Experts believe that the coming drought will be extensive.
- 專家們認為即將發生的旱災將侵襲大片地區。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. In fact many food crops failed because of the drought.
- 實際上，因為干旱，很多糧食作物歉收。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Drought has left more than two million people close to starvation.
- 干旱讓兩百多萬人瀕臨餓死。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The drought there is stretching American resources.
- 那里的旱災正在耗盡美國的財力物力。
來自柯林斯例句