The farmer ascribed the poor harvest to drought.

农民把歉收归因于干旱。

Our crops have failed this year so we can hardly eke out a living.

我们今庄稼歉收，几乎无法维持生计。

The U.N. blames drought, flooding and heat waves - a combination of the three.

联合国将粮食歉收归咎于干旱、洪水和浪的共同影响。

OK, so drought is a period of very dry weather where there is little or no rain and it can cause problems — things like crops failing or wildfires.

好的，干旱是指在一段时期内，天气非常干燥，很少或根本没有降雨，这可能会导致农作物歉收或野火等问题。

Conditions must be just right or a harvest is lost.

种植条件必须恰到好处，否则就会歉收。

The drought may have caused crop failures, hunger and political problems.

干旱可能导致了农作物歉收、饥饿和政治问题。

The reasons include a lack of water, crop failure, and other disasters.

原因包括水、庄稼歉收和其他灾难。

However, recent storms could mean further crop deficits.

然而，最近的风暴可能意味着进一步的作物歉收。

The clashes caused poor harvests in 2013 and the country has little food.

冲突使得2013歉收，整个国家少食物。

He vetoed a bill giving aid to farmers whose crops had failed. And he vetoed another bill giving more money to men who had served as soldiers during America's civil war of the eighteen sixties.

他否决了一项向庄稼歉收的农民提供资助的法案。此外，他还否决了另一项法案，该法案将更多的钱款捐给在1960代参与美国内战的军人。

Beside being better off than they already, if my house had been burned or my crops had failed, I should have been nearly as well off as before.

况且我的光景已经比他们的好了许多，如果我的房子烧掉了，或者我歉收了，我还能跟以前一样地过得很好。

The report of a bad harvest in Canada could mean a fall on the London stockmarket the next day, and the arrangement of imports of Russian wheat by the end of the week.

加拿大粮食歉收的报道会带来第二天伦敦股票市场的股票下跌，到该周周末会安排进口沙俄小麦。

Sri Lanka says it will pay compensation to more than a million rice farmers for the failure of their crops after the government banned the import of chemical fertilizers.

斯里兰卡表示，将对100多万稻农进行赔偿，此前他们的作物因政府禁止进口化肥而歉收。

This lack of food diversity leaves many populations vulnerable to hunger when their major crops fail, or malnutrition when these crops aren't paired with other, more nutrient-rich foods.

粮食多样性的乏使许多人口在主要作物歉收时容易挨饿，或者在这些作物没有与其他营养丰富的食物搭配时容易营养不良。

Beyond Ireland crop failures and urban overcrowding throughout northern Europe led farmers from Scandinavia and Germany to the US, and its vast tracks of fertile land.

除了爱尔兰农作物歉收和整个北欧城市过度拥挤之外，斯堪的纳维亚半岛和德国的农民来到了美国，以及广阔的肥沃土地。

It causes crops to fail and women to miscarry, so the British King Ludd digs a huge pit and fills it with mead.

这导致庄稼歉收，妇女流产，于是英国国王卢德挖了一个巨大的坑，并将其填满蜂蜜酒。

In the 1930s, a severe drought in the Great Plains caused massive crop failures. In some places, the drought lasted 8 years.

上30代，大平原地区发生了严重的干旱，导致大面积作物歉收。在有些地区，干旱持续了长达八时间。

Two thirds of the crops planted last season failed, while Ngamiland, a rich beef producing region, has recorded nearly 40,000 cattle deaths.

上一季种植的作物三分之二歉收，而盛产牛肉的Ngamiland地区已经近4万头牛死亡，已创录。

Russia alone is the biggest supplier of key ingredients in the making of fertilisers, without which crops falter or lose nutrients.

俄罗斯是化肥关键原料的最大供应国，如果没有这些原料，作物就会歉收或失去营养。

Spanish olive farmers have begun to bring in their harvest but are warning it's the second poor year in a row.

西班牙橄榄种植农已经开始收成，但他们警告称，这是连续第二歉收。