famine
n. 饥荒；饥饿，奇缺
n.
饥荒；饥饿；极度缺乏；
变形
复数：famines
双语释义
n.(名词)[C][U]饥荒 (a case of) extreme lack of food for a very large number of people
英英释义
famine[ 'fæmin ]
n.
an acute insufficiency
同义词：dearthshortage
a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
词汇搭配
用作名词 (n.)
动词+～
cause famine引起饥荒
die of famine饿死
suffer from famine闹饥荒
形容词+～
big famine大饥荒
widespread famine蔓延甚广的饥荒
worldwide famine世界性饥荒
介词+～
perish by〔with〕 famine饿死
同近义词辨析
hunger, famine, starvation这组词都有“饥饿”的意思，其区别是：
hunger普通用词，指人体对于食物迫切需要的正常生理现象。
famine指因天灾人祸而引起大规模饥荒；用作引申，指严重缺乏某种物资或人力。
starvation语气比hunger强得多。指因长期缺乏食物所造成的痛苦，甚至死亡，侧重人为的灾难所致。
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
War, famine and flood are terrible evils.
战争、饥荒和洪水都是可怕的灾祸。
Famine is often the sequel to war or drought.
饥荒往往是战争或干旱造成的。
It's impossible to remain unmoved by her reports of the famine.
任何人对她报道的饥荒情况都不可能无动于衷。
We are collecting money for the famine victim.
我们在为遭受饥荒的灾民募捐。
Thousands of people died of famine.
千千万万的人死于饥荒。
People in the eastern cities thought they faced a serious coal famine .
东部各城市的人民认为他们面临一次严重的煤荒。
权威例句
Schizophrenia after prenatal famine. Further evidence.Feast and famine: critical role of glucocorticoids with insulin in daily energy flow
Obesity in young men after famine exposure in utero and early infancy.
Glucose tolerance in adults after prenatal exposure to famine.
Obesity at the age of 50 y in men and women exposed to famine prenatally
Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans
DNA methylation differences after exposure to prenatal famine are common and timing- and sex-specific.
Persistent epigenetic differences associated with prenatal exposure to famine in humans
DNA methylation differences after exposure to prenatal famine are common and timing- and sex-specific. Hum Mol Genet
Ravelli, A. C. et al. Glucose tolerance in adults after prenatal exposure to famine. Lancet 351, 173-177
famine
famine: [14] Both famine and famish [14] come ultimately from Latin famēs ‘hunger’. Its Vulgar Latin derivative *faminis produced Old French famine, source of English famine. Famish has come via a more circuitous route: another Vulgar Latin derivative of famēs was *affamāre, a compound verb formed with the prefix ad- ‘towards’; in Old French this became afamer, which was borrowed into Middle English, with loss of its first syllable, as fame ‘starve’; and before long this had the suffix -ish added to it, on the model of other verbs such as abolish and diminish.=> famish
famine (n.)
mid-14c., from Old French famine "famine, starvation" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *famina, from Latin fames "hunger, starvation, famine," which is of unknown origin.
1. War brings death and famine.
战争带来死亡和饥荒。
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2. Thousands died of famine.
数千人死于饥荒。
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3. Many people starved to death in the famine.
许多人饿死于此次饥荒。
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4. It had brought nothing but drought and famine.
除了干旱和饥饿，它无法带来任何东西。
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5. This is not only a matter of genocide, famine, imperialism and the slave trade.
这不仅仅是种族屠杀、饥荒、帝国主义和奴隶贩卖的问题。
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6. Then if convulsion, then famine.
动乱，然后是饥荒。
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7. Over half of all deaths from natural disasters worldwide are due to drought and famine, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
根据国际红十字会联合会和红新月会的报道，全球所有因自然灾害造成的死亡人数中，超过半数是由于干旱和饥荒。
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8. They all stand on the shoulders of giants: British economist Thomas Malthus predicted in the 19th century that the rise in population would lead to widespread famine and catastrophe.
他们都站在巨人的肩膀之上：英国经济学家托马斯·马尔萨斯在19世纪预测人口的增长将导致大规模的饥荒和灾难。
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9. Worse, the village emerged in the midst of a disastrous famine brought on by rapid collectivization of farmland.
更糟糕的是这个村庄经历了由农田快速集体化带来的一场灾难性的饥荒。
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10. Hostility toward immigrants, especially the Irish who arrived in the wake of the potato famine, was certainly around in their time.
针对移民者，特别是随着土豆饥荒而来的爱尔兰人的敌意在他们那个时代就已经存在。
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11. He then built a plant capable of mass hamburger production to feed his students and teachers, despite the fact that the majority of his citizens battle famine on a daily basis.
之后他建造了一个大量生产汉堡包的工厂以向他的学生和教师们提供食物，尽管这个国家的大部分民众每天都正在和饥荒作斗争。
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12. And because the problems in many places are not like those of a traditional famine, the WFP should be allowed to broaden what it does.
由于现在很多地方这些问题已经不像是传统意义上的饥荒那样了，联合国世界粮食计划署应当被允许去扩大它的职能。
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13. This would help build up local agriculture; it will help break the cycle of famine.
他说："这样做将有助于当地农业的发展，并有利于打破饥荒循环。
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14. Using data from trained observers in the region and satellite and scientific data, FEWS NET predicted the onset of famine in the Horn of Africa as much as a year ago.
饥荒预警系统网络利用由该地区训练有素的观察员和卫星提供的数据和科学数据，早在一年多前就预计了非洲之角将出现饥荒。
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15. As the years pass, through famine and rebellion, they reflect upon their arranged marriages, loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood.
随着岁月的流逝，经历过饥荒和反叛，她们回忆着她们的包办婚姻、孤独和作为母亲的喜悦和悲伤。
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16. So yet another threat to the promise is overcome: threat of famine is overcome by the relocation to Egypt.
因此，另一个对承诺的威胁被克服了：,迁移至埃及克服了饥荒的威胁。
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17. And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
我要在那里奉养你。因为还有五年的饥荒，免得你和你的眷属，并一切所有的，都败落了。
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18. For millions of ordinary men and women, it has meant famine, hardship, torture, forced labour, a broken economy and a monstrously oppressive state.
对于成百万的普通男人和女人，它意味着饥荒、苦难、酷刑、强迫劳动、破产的经济和充满压迫的国家。
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19. Regarding the “institutions which, in Niger, said there was a famine”.
关于“在尼日尔的一些机构说有饥荒”一事。
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20. The third seal is what? Famine and poverty.
第三道印是什么？饥荒和贫穷。
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21. The third seal is what? Famine and poverty.
第三道印是什么？饥荒和贫穷。
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22. Millions of people gave freely in response to the famine appeal.
千百万人响应救灾呼吁而慷慨解囊.
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
23. Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.
饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
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24. Famine and war still afflict mankind.
饥荒与战争依旧给人类带来痛苦。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
25. die of [suffer from] famine
死于 [闹] 饥荒
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26. Drought and famine stalked the land.
干旱和饥荒肆虐这片土地。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
27. Food deficits were widening and famine was unfolding.
缺粮范围不断扩大，饥荒在蔓延。
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28. Famine and war have thinned the population.
灾荒和战争使人口减少了。
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29. a fuel [coal] famine = a famine of fuel [coal]
燃料 [煤] 荒
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30. Before liberation famine forced his father to flee his native village.
解放前饥荒逼得他的父亲逃离家乡。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
31. They decided not to count on foreign aid to relieve the famine.
他们决定不依靠外援来救灾。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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