Williams said the current megadrought can be ended with a few good rainy years.

威廉姆斯说，当前的大干旱可以在几个好雨季结束。

And scientists now think that this climate shift had effects far away-including causing a megadrought in Southeast Asia.

科学家现在认为，这种气候变化产生了深远的影响，包括在东南亚造成特大干旱。

In California, a chronic " megadrought" -in which dry years become more common and wet ones scarcer-is making matters even worse.

在加州，一场漫长的“百年难遇的干旱”——干旱年份越来越常见，多雨年越来越罕见——让问题变得更加糟糕。

Much of the American West is being fried by the worst megadrought in a millennium.

美国西部的大部分地区正遭受千年来最严重的特大旱灾。

A few years ago, Williams studied the current drought and said it met the requirements to be considered a long and deep " megadrought" .

几年前，威廉姆斯研究了当前的干旱，并表示它符合被认为是一场长期而严重的" 特大干旱" 的要求。

Without climate change, he said, the megadrought would have ended earlier because 2005 and 2006 would have been wet enough to break it.

他说，如果没有气候变化，这场特大干旱可能会提前结束，因为2005年和2006年的降雨足以终结干旱。

For the past 20-plus years, a megadrought, made worse by manmade global warming has left the West drier than it's been in over a thousand years.

在过去的 20 多年里，人为的全球变暖加剧了一场特大干旱，使西部历经了一千多年以来最严重的干旱。

This showed that the region is already drier than it was during the first three of the previous megadroughts, and is on a par with the event of 1575-1603.

这表明该地区已经比前三次百年不遇的干旱时期更加干燥了，且与1575年到1603年的情况相当。

You know, this crisis is the result of the 20-plus-year megadrought here in the West and also water diversions from rivers upstream from the lake for farming, mostly going to animal feed crops, as well as cities.

这场危机是西部地区二十多年来极端干旱的结果，也是从该湖泊上游调水用于农业的结果，水源主要流向动物饲料作物，也流向了城市。