drought

词源同dry, 干的，干旱的。引申义旱灾。

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 drugað, drugoð "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.

1. The path was dry and slithery from the drought.

小路因干旱变得又干又滑。

2. Experts believe that the coming drought will be extensive.

专家们认为即将发生的旱灾将侵袭大片地区。

3. In fact many food crops failed because of the drought.

实际上，因为干旱，很多粮食作物歉收。

4. Drought has left more than two million people close to starvation.

干旱让两百多万人濒临饿死。

5. The drought there is stretching American resources.

那里的旱灾正在耗尽美国的财力物力。