英语释义

• a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

• an acute insufficiency

片语

famine refugee饑民

famine prices缺货行市

fames饑饿

famine relief饑荒救济物资

cause famine引起饑荒

hunger(Hunger)人名；(德、波)洪格尔；(英)亨格

Bengali famine孟加拉饑荒

house famine房荒

famine edema营养不良性水肿

famine plague灾荒

time famine时间饑荒（总是感到时间不够用）

英汉例句

• 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饑荒。

• so, the more fundamental issue is the systematic failure of the international community to anticipate and respond in a timely manner to avert a major crisis like the famine in the horn of africa.

  因此，更为根本的问题是国际社会救援机制中的错位，为了避免类似于非洲之角饑荒那样的重大危机应使其及时地参与救援及作出反应。

• 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饑荒作斗争。

• the goal is to find drugs that trick these mechanisms into thinking that famine is at hand.

  其目的是为了能够找到一些药物，给检测机制制造饑荒即将来临的假象。

• the international community held an emergency meeting in rome monday on the famine and drought in the horn of africa.

  周一，国际社会在罗马召开紧急会议，商讨非洲之角的饑荒和干旱问题。

• in famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

  在饑荒中，他必救你脱离死亡。在争战中，他必救你脱离刀剑的权力。

• a famine broke forth.

  发生了饑荒。

• 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，经历过饑荒和反叛，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。

• it might well fall into famine again this year.

  今年，卡拉莫贾地区可能会再次陷入饑荒。

• famine plagued a score of nations.

  二十来个国家遭受饑荒。

• another then announced there had been no change in the prohibition and claimed the declaration of famine was a western ploy to gain influence.

  然后另一个则宣布，禁止状态一直没有改变，并声称饑荒的声明是西方获得影响的一个策略。

• the third seal is what? famine and poverty.

  第三道印是什么？饑荒和贫穷。

• a stark example is the bengal famine of 1943, during the last days of the british rule in india.

  一个鲜明的例子是1943年，英国统治印度的最后一段时期，孟加拉国所爆发的大范围饑荒。

• it is not to apologize for soviet famine and terror to recall that for millions of people beyond its borders the soviet union was the hope of mankind.

  这当然不是苏联为自己造成的饑荒与恐怖所道歉，而是要让人们记得，苏联对于其边境外的千百万人民来说，代表着人类的希望。

• once on board, they regaled the crew with tales of famine in their villages.

  一旦登上船只，海盗就向船员讲述发生在他们村庄的饑荒故事。

• if all this were not enough, famine is a dreadful possibility.

  如果这一切还不够，饑荒也是个可怕的可能。

相似词

absence没有；缺乏；缺席；不注意

lack缺乏，不足

starvation饿死；挨饿；绝食

deficiency缺陷，缺点；缺乏；不足的数额

want需要；缺少

need需要，必须； 特别需要，迫切要求；欲望；（食物、钱或生活来源的）短缺，缺乏；必需品；贫困（或困难）的处境

shortage缺乏，缺少；不足

absence没有；缺乏；缺席；不注意

shortage缺乏，缺少；不足

want需要；缺少

scarcity不足；缺乏

lack缺乏，不足

need需要，必须； 特别需要，迫切要求；欲望；（食物、钱或生活来源的）短缺，缺乏；必需品；贫困（或困难）的处境

deficiency缺陷，缺点；缺乏；不足的数额

starvation饿死；挨饿；绝食

相反词

affluence富裕；丰富；流入；汇聚

plenty(Plenty)人名；(英)普伦蒂

abundance充裕，丰富

plenty(Plenty)人名；(英)普伦蒂