在干旱时期配给农民的水量减少。

Water allotments to farmers were cut back in the drought.

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这使她能够在干旱和食物短缺时暂缓胚胎的发育，直到育儿袋里的后代能够独立生活。

This allows her to freeze the development of an embryo during times of drought and food shortage until the offspring in the pouch is able to leave.

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另一方面，在干旱和半干旱地区，湖泊数量少，湖泊之间距离远，减少了相互关联的可能性。

In arid and semiarid regions, on the other hand, the small number of lakes and the great distances between them reduce the possibilities for correlation.

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So as a result, they said there were droughts in these areas throughout that period and that caused tremendous unhappiness and discontent.

最后结果就是,他们说那个时期,在那个区域发生了干旱,从而致使,民生凋敝,民怨沸腾

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