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。
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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。
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4. Drought has left more than two million people close to starvation.
干旱讓兩百多萬人瀕臨餓死。
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5. The drought there is stretching American resources.