When the drought came, the crops failed and the cattle ate all the grass around the overworked Wells.

干旱到来时，作物欠收，负担过重的水井周围的青草全给牛吃光了。

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The current drought, which began when the rains failed once again in April, is not yet as bad as the drought that came in 2005 and left this area littered with the corpses of animals.

四月份的又一次没有降水，是这次旱灾的起始，不过暂时还不及2005年那场动物们横尸遍野的旱灾来得严重。

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This is a worry because some of the most desirable characteristics of plants-taste, drought - and pest-resistance-originally came from the wild gene pool, which will be needed again one day.

这令人担心，因为小麦的味道，原始抗旱抗虫基因来自于野生基因库，总有一天我们会需要这些的。

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But it's still well below what it was before the drought came on about 1999.

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While some of the slowdown came primarily from a decline in farm inventories, due to the drought in the mid-west, consumer service spending, exports and durable goods all declined as well.

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