drouth 中文意思是什麼

drouth 解釋
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  1. From roundwood reservoir in county wicklow of a cubic capacity of 2, 400 million gallons, percolating through a subterranean aqueduct of filter mains of single and double pipeage constructed at an initial plant cost of 5 per linear yard by way of the dargle, rathdown, glen of the downs and callowhill to the 26 acre reservoir at stillorgan, a distance of 22 statute miles, and thence, through a system of relieving tanks, by a gradient of 250 feet to the city boundary at eustace bridge, upper leeson street, though from prolonged summer drouth and daily supply of 12 1 2 million gallons the water had fallen below the sill of the overflow weir for which reason the borough surveyor and waterworks engineer, mr spencer harty, c. e., on the instructions of the waterworks committee, had prohibited the use of municipal water for purposes other than those of consumption envisaging the possibility of recourse being had to the importable water of the grand and royal canals as in 1893 particularly as the south dublin guardians, notwithstanding their ration of 15 gallons per day per pauper supplied through a 6 inch meter, had been convicted of a wastage of 20, 000 gallons per night by a reading of their meter on the affirmation of the law agent of the corporation, mr ignatius rice, solicitor, thereby acting to the detriment of another section of the public, selfsupporting taxpayers, solvent, sound

    但是由於夏季久旱，再加上每天供水一千二百五十萬加侖，水位已降到低於排水口。都市監察官兼水道局技官土木工程師斯潘塞哈蒂奉水道局的指示鑒于有可能會像一八九三年那樣被迫利用大運河和皇家運河那不宜飲用的水，除了飲用外，下令一律禁止使用市裡供應的自來水。尤其是南都柏林濟貧院，盡管限定用六英寸的計量器，每個貧民每日配給十五加侖水，然而在市政府法律顧問辯護律師伊格內修斯賴斯的監督下，經查表證實，每夜要浪費兩萬加侖水，從而使院外的社會各階層也就是自費並有支付能力的納稅者們蒙受損害。
  2. Growling and grousing and his eye all bloodshot from the drouth is in it and the hydrophobia dropping out of his jaws

    它喉嚨乾枯，眼睛掛滿了血絲，從口腔里嘀嘀嗒嗒地淌著狂犬癥的涎水。
  3. That never dared to slake his drouth,

    穿著短褲不講道理，
  4. All instinct like the bird in drouth got water out of the end of a jar by throwing in pebbles

    這全都是出於本能，猶如乾旱時的鳥兒，往水罐里丟石頭子兒，好讓水從罐嘴兒淌出來。
  5. Slaking his drouth. - there s a van there, mr bloom said, but it s not moving

    「那兒有一輛載貨馬車， 」布盧姆先生說， 「可是它一動也沒動。
  6. No good eggs with this drouth

    天氣這么乾旱，沒有好吃的蛋。
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