Drought

(noun.) a shortage of rainfall; 'farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season'.

(noun.) a prolonged shortage; 'when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought'.

整理:莉莲

• He succeeded, where Taft failed, in preventing that drought of invention which officialism brings. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The seasons most unfavourable to the crop are those of excessive drought or excessive rain. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• This renders them liable to destruction in times of drought. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In the summer of 1911, prolonged drought in North Carolina lowered the rivers to such an extent that towns dependent upon them suffered greatly. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I then worked the lawn very carefully for signs and traces, but this drought has made everything as hard as iron. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• What wonder then, in time of siege, want, extreme heat, and drought, that it should make unaccustomed ravages? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• How disastrous a great drought might prove to the cattle of the Pampas is shown by the records of 1825 and of 1830. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The drought in Bengal, a few years ago, might probably have occasioned a very great dearth. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The drought which Reuben administered was of a sedative and narcotic quality, and secured the patient sound and undisturbed slumbers. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• She wasted like any snow-wreath in thaw; she faded like any flower in drought. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• When didst thou drink as deep a drought of water before, Holy Clerk of Copmanhurst? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• A cup of wine will do thee no harm, he added, filling and handing to the swineherd a richer drought than Gurth had ever before tasted. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It had fought gamely with floods and droughts, with cholera and panics, with desperadoes and with land thieves. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The crops upon Mars are always uniform, for there are no droughts, no rains, no high winds, and no insects, or destroying birds. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.

校对:佩里