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Okavango Delta, Botswana (CNN) -- Each year, the heart of Botswana turns from parched savannah into rich wetland, and the Okavango Delta springs to life.
奧卡萬戈三角洲，博茨瓦納（CNN）——每年，博茨瓦納的中心都會由乾透的大草原變成富饒的溼地，奧卡萬戈三角洲開始孕育生命。
It was a clear day, and from his front window we could see acrossthe parched, brown valley all the way to the thin line of gray-greenvegetation marking the path of the Jordan River.
這是一個晴朗的日子，從他家前麪的窗戶，我們能夠看到乾透的褐色山穀，一直延伸到標志著約旦河路逕的由灰綠色植被組成的細線。
FOR Americans from the parched western states, the notion of Alabama, Georgia and Florida battling over water must seem as daft as three fat people fighting for a grape at a lavish banquet.
阿拉巴馬、佐治亞與彿羅裡達三個州地処西部、氣候炎熱，對於此地的美國人而言，爲水資源而戰(zhàn)的想法，就好比三個胖子在一場盛宴上爭奪一串葡萄那般，愚不可及。

Parts of Australia have seen below-average rainfall for several years and the outlook for many parched communities is not good.

The project will also capture steam for use as water in the parched country.
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Most of Ethiopia's 7m pastoralists are Muslim and the parched lands they roam are particularly combustible.
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(VERY DRY) (especially of earth or crops) dried out because of too much heat and not enough rain
(VERY THIRSTY) extremely thirsty

If something, especially the ground or a plant, is parched, it is very dry, because there has been no rain.
If your mouth, throat, or lips are parched, they are unpleasantly dry.
If you say that you are parched, you mean that you are very thirsty.