A：I think a drought has set in. It hasn’t rained a drop for months.我想干旱開始了。幾個月都沒下一滴雨了。

B：I think so too, but didn't it rain last month?我也這么想。但是上個月沒有下雨嗎?

A：It did rain last month, but the rainfall was only half the monthly average.上個月是下了雨，不過降雨量只有平均月降雨量的一半。

B：Oh, that bad?噢，那么糟嗎?

A：That's right. It's really bad. I am really concerned though not panicked yet.就是啊。真的很糟糕。我非常擔(dān)心，雖然還沒有驚慌的程度。

B：I don't blame you. The pastures have browned out even before the summer hasn't arrived.也難怪你這么想。夏天還沒到，牧草都變黃了。

A：Yeah, and the soil has been baked so hard that the plow can’t even break the soil.是啊，土地烤得太干了，犁都犁不動。

B：Look like it's going to be an ongoing thing that would get worse each day.看起來干旱好像在持續(xù)，也許會一天比一天糟。

A：Yeah. If it doesn’t rain, it’s going to get critical.是啊。如果不下雨的話，情況會更糟糕。