droughts

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• n.旱災(zāi)；【氣】干旱；旱季；〈比喻〉(長期的)缺乏

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Water companies might have to invest in new reservoirs, and maybe build desalination plants to deal with droughts.

供水公司可能得投資建設(shè)新的水庫，并建立海水淡化廠以應(yīng)對干旱。

I had dealt with a lot of natural disasters as governor, including floods, droughts, and tornadoes, but I had never seen anything like this.

擔(dān)任州長期間，我曾處理過不少自然災(zāi)害，包括洪水、旱災(zāi)和龍卷風(fēng)，但我從未見過如此慘狀。

Mr. Mwangi says the land used for animals is often not good enough for farming, especially during droughts.

Mwangi先生說，用于放牧的土地往往不適合耕種，尤其是在干旱期間。

In contrast, Mamba, a 35-year-old farmer in Malawi, has no desire to leave his village despite droughts and periods of acute hunger.

不同的是，35歲的馬拉維農(nóng)民Mamba不愿離開他的村子，盡管那里發(fā)生了干旱和嚴(yán)重的饑荒。

I worked in northern Kenya, trying to help struggling pastoralist communities survive successive droughts.

我曾在肯尼亞北部工作，努力幫助苦苦掙扎的牧民度過連續(xù)的干旱。

As well as droughts, floods and other extreme events, the next few years are also likely to be the hottest on record, scientists say.

科學(xué)家們說，未來幾年內(nèi)，除了干旱、洪水和其它極端氣候事件以外，可能還會(huì)出現(xiàn)有史以來最熱的天氣。

Monsoons and droughts are not unusual, but forests can hold some of that excess water and release it in the dry season.

雨季與干旱并非罕見，但森林可在雨季保持部分多余水分，并在旱季放出水分。

An expert said the dating is significant because some researchers have blamed the extinctions on extended droughts that occurred later.

一位專家說，這次年代測定具有重要意義，因?yàn)?/c>有些研究者把動(dòng)物絕種歸咎于發(fā)生較晚的長期干旱。

Deforestation has traditionally been a major problem for farmers. Few trees remain to protect soil from floods, droughts and severe storms.

森林坎伐歷來是農(nóng)民們的大問題。幾乎沒有樹木能被保留下來阻擋洪水，預(yù)防干旱并抵御強(qiáng)風(fēng)。

Natural phenomena like droughts, floods, and insects are the bane of every farmer.

諸如干旱，洪水，蟲災(zāi)等自然災(zāi)害是每個(gè)農(nóng)民的噩夢。

This higher rate seems to make wet regions more sodden, and arid ones drier. It brings longer droughts between more intense periods of rain.

這樣會(huì)使潮濕地區(qū)更加瀝澇，乾燥地區(qū)更加枯旱，容易造成豪雨成災(zāi)和久旱不雨的極端現(xiàn)象輪番上陣。

These variables affect the amount of water, and for that reason the potential risks of flooding and droughts and water scarcity.

這此變量影響水量，并決定了水災(zāi)、干旱和水短缺這些潛在風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。

Nwanze said many people around the world are no longer able to cope with recurring droughts and floods, which he blames on climate change.

Nwanze表示，全世界的許多人已經(jīng)不再能夠應(yīng)對頻繁發(fā)生的干旱和洪水。

These waves were all related with serious droughts or wars in Shandong, but they also reflected the variety of Shandong people's localism.

這些浪潮雖然都與山東同年份嚴(yán)重的旱災(zāi)和戰(zhàn)亂有直接的關(guān)系，但卻反映了山東人鄉(xiāng)土觀念的變化。

It was also indicated that over the past two years, European agriculture suffered droughts and total output of raw silk was declining.

另外，還有資訊顯示，在過去的兩年里，歐洲農(nóng)業(yè)遭受天旱，生絲收成減產(chǎn)。

If I were a little waterdrop, I would go to places which have droughts to help crops grow wonderfully.

如果我是一滴小水珠，我會(huì)去到干旱地區(qū)去幫助莊稼生長的更好。

She said more drugs droughts , floods. and storms mean greater demands for humanitarian aid.

她說越來越多的干旱、洪水、風(fēng)暴意味著需要更多的人道主義的援助。

As the head of a fictional international body the user must save the world from soaring temperatures, increasing floods and deadly droughts.

作為虛構(gòu)的國際組織的首腦，這款游戲的使用者必須把地球從日益飆升的氣溫，連年增多的洪澇災(zāi)害還有令人致命的干旱中解救出來。

A hotter climate will dry out the soil more, making record intensity droughts like this year's in Texas more probable.

一個(gè)炎熱的氣候會(huì)變干，使土壤干旱像今年記錄強(qiáng)度是在德州更可能的原因。

Reports and studies over the intervening years have spelt out the likely cost of failure: floods, droughts, famines and refugees.

幾年來的報(bào)告和調(diào)查研究表明了失敗后的可能代價(jià)：洪水，干旱，饑荒和難民。

Some of these droughts must have been severe.

有一些旱災(zāi)想必是嚴(yán)重的。

She said more droughts, floods and storms mean greater demands for humanitarian aid.

越來越多的干旱、洪澇還有暴風(fēng)襲擊意味著人道主義援助的更大需求。

Years of droughts in this country made for the emigration of its people to the neighboring countries.

常年干旱致使這個(gè)國家的人民紛紛移民到鄰國。

The trial scheme was hit by one of the worst droughts in decades, triggering compensation payments of of farmers' investments.

幾十年來，該嘗試性的計(jì)劃因最嚴(yán)重的一次干旱遭到重創(chuàng)，所賠的賠付金占了80%的農(nóng)民投資額。

Climate change, which already wreaks havoc through local droughts and heat waves, could well unleash global-scale havoc in a few decades.

早已在各地引發(fā)旱災(zāi)、熱浪等災(zāi)難的氣候變遷，可能在未來數(shù)十年內(nèi)，造成遍及全球的大災(zāi)難。

Droughts seem to be ever more frequent in northern China, and southern cities such as Guangzhou are also affected.

北方的旱災(zāi)更加頻繁，諸如廣州等南方城市也深受其害。

The absence of land reform and successive droughts in the northern states led to a continuous exodus to the south of the country.

北部省份由于沒有土地改革以及持續(xù)鬧旱災(zāi)，人口不斷地涌向南方。

Weather patterns in North Korea, for instance, have been marked since the mid-1990s by a succession of droughts, followed by floods.

例如，北朝鮮的天氣模式自從20世紀(jì)90年代以來曾以一系列干旱以及隨之而來的洪水為標(biāo)志。結(jié)果曾是整個(gè)農(nóng)業(yè)系統(tǒng)的破壞。

Severe droughts could become more common in warm areas and species unable to adapt to the changing conditions would face extinction.

嚴(yán)重干旱可能在溫暖地區(qū)更加常見，而不能適應(yīng)環(huán)境變化的物種將面臨滅絕。

And along the east coast, droughts have reduced the Yangtze River to its lowest water levels in fifty years.

而東部沿岸，大旱則使長江降到了50年來的最低水位。

The climate phenomenon results from warming of the tropical Pacific and causes heatwaves, droughts and flooding around the world.

這個(gè)氣候現(xiàn)象是由熱帶太平洋變暖引起的，導(dǎo)致世界各地遭受熱浪、干旱及洪水的災(zāi)害。

It seems to take floods or droughts for water to get our rare attention.

我們很少去關(guān)注洪水以及干旱。

The flooding has hit a region which, until days ago, was coping with one of the worst droughts in recent times.

洪災(zāi)波及的一個(gè)地區(qū)幾天前還正經(jīng)受著近期最嚴(yán)重的旱災(zāi)困擾。

Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, snow storms, landslides and droughts killed at least 250, 000 people, globally.

地震、熱浪、洪澇、火山爆發(fā)、超強(qiáng)臺(tái)風(fēng)、暴風(fēng)雪、泥石流，干旱致使全球至少有25萬人喪生。

Today lethal droughts, especially in parts of Africa and interior Australia, prompt animals to gather around remaining resources.

今日在有些地區(qū)，特別是在非洲與澳洲內(nèi)陸，依然會(huì)出現(xiàn)足以奪命的乾旱，動(dòng)物不得不聚集在僅存的資源附近。

It is mainly a result of natural causes, like the sharp weather changes from extreme droughts to heavy rainstorms.

主要是由自然因素的，比如劇烈的氣候，從大旱到強(qiáng)烈暴風(fēng)雨頻繁。

His river Zei is similarly ghostly, like the terrain of a land that is chafing under successive droughts and unfettered development.

斯提的Zei之河像一副魅景，似土地的地表被連續(xù)的干旱蹉跎著，任其肆無忌憚的發(fā)展。

Now, Perez says, they will have to work on boosting production - and investing in technologies like irrigation to deal with future droughts.

貝利茲說，現(xiàn)在，他們還將致力于產(chǎn)量的增加，投資于水利工程，以預(yù)防未來的干旱氣候。

Scientists believe the predicted rise, which will bring storms, floods and droughts, will be partly due to a reduction in air pollution.

科學(xué)家們相信其預(yù)言的升溫將帶來風(fēng)暴、洪水和旱災(zāi)，部分原因是由于空氣污染的減少。

North-central Florida, especially Orange County where Orlando is located, has experienced frequent droughts in the last decade.

中北部的佛羅里達(dá)，特別是奧蘭多所在的橘子郡，在過去十年里已遭遇了頻繁的旱災(zāi)。

So peoples clothes and money, families are fierce enough to hedge against floods, droughts and famine, why?

所以民眾的衣服之財(cái)，家家都足以防患水旱兇饑，為什麼呢？