| 词汇 | famine |
| 释义 | famine noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈfæm.ɪn/ us /ˈfæm.ɪn/ C2 a situation in which there is not enough food for a great number of people, causing illness and death, or a particular period when this happens: 饥荒;饥荒时期 widespread famineAnother crop failure could result in widespread famine.如果庄稼再次歉收就可能导致大范围饥荒。 die of famineThere were reports of refugees dying of famine.有一些关于难民饿死的报告。 Thousands of people emigrated during the Irish potato famine of 1845–46.在1845年到1846年间的爱尔兰马铃薯饥荒时期，成千上万的人移居国外。 Hungry & thirsty anorectic anorexigenic anti-hunger appetite be gaspingidiom food poverty hunger hunger striker hungrily hungry parched smack your lipsidiom starvation starved thirst thirstily thirsty underfed undernourished voracity famine | American Dictionaryfamine noun[ C/U ] us/ˈfæm·ən/ an extreme lack of food in a region, causing suffering and death: [ U ]Widespread famine was reported in the region. Examples of faminefamine The dispute thus centred on the value of visual evidence from different observers during the famine and in the past. The severity of famine gradually increased in the east which slowly proceeded from west through the decades. How could the effects of these famines have been so severe and what lessons can we learn from those terrible events? For such communities, strategies of risk aversion, as well as customary responses to famine, would still have mattered. However, specific empirical critiques of the making and implementing of famine policy were more effective. Some even predicted a near-global meltdown with famines stretching across our globe. Abnormally high motality may be the hallmark of famine, but societal breakdown is its essence. Fifteen droughts were severe enough to have caused famine, and 11 of them, or 87%, followed large eruptions within two years. Moreover, some of the workers left areas plagued by famine. Certainly some of the prints showed starvation and famine so severe that money and supplies must have been wanted. However, human migrations, landless people, famine and fragmented landscapes speak for themselves. Their greatest differences stemmed from the manner in which they presented themselves as famine managers, and to whom. At this point, villages were teetering on the brink of famine as locust invasions threatened to consume the limited food crops that had been planted. This was a gritty world of poverty, famines, floods, banditry, unrest. Since the early 1970s, the region seems to have been widely beset by civil wars, political upheavals, famines and other natural disasters. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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