Week after week the drought continued.

干旱持续了好多个星期。

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The drought there is stretching resources.

那里的干旱正在耗尽财力物力。

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The drought there is the worst in a century.

那里的旱情百年不遇。

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Somalia could get some relief from the drought in the coming weeks, if El Nino storms move through East Africa as expected.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Some of the challenges that you see here I mentioned before, so there are problems with drought, with pests, with temperature changes and the like.

我之前提到的,你们所见的这些挑战,如干旱问题,虫害问题以及温度变化之类的

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The drought, and nearly two decades of political unrest and economic neglect have left the Mudug region one of the poorest and least developed in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

The drought in the region has been so severe that quiver trees are struggling to survive.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Climate threat has plants quivering

Its application for the drought order has to get the approval of the Scottish government.

BBC: Black Esk reservoir - courtesy Scottish Water

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

NPR: Can Climate Change Explain Odd Weather?