famines

英 [ˈfæmɪnz]

美 [ˈfæmənz]

n.  饥荒
famine的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 饥馑;饥荒
  Famineis a situation in which large numbers of people have little or no food, and many of them die.
  1. Thousands of refugees are trapped by war, drought and famine...
     成千上万的难民陷于战争、旱灾和饥荒之中。
  2. The civil war is obstructing distribution of famine relief by aid agencies.
     内战阻碍着救援机构对饥荒赈济物资的配给。

双语例句

• She has become so poor that she has little power of resisting famines.
  印度已经穷得对饥荒没有抵御能力了。
• Professor Jonathan Bate, the Shakespeare scholar and provost of Worcester College, Oxford, said Archer and her colleagues had performed a valuable service in setting Shakespeare's work in the context of the famines and food shortages of the period.
  乔纳森-贝特是牛津大学伍斯特学院的教务长，同时也是研究莎士比亚的学者。他说，阿彻女士及其团队的发现对研究莎翁笔下大饥荒与粮食短缺时期的作品很有价值。
• Famines became worse each season, especially in Asia.
  饥荒每一个季度都在加剧，尤其是在亚洲。
• When famines threatened, newspapers alerted the powerbrokers.
  当饥荒构成威胁时，报纸会向政治掮客们发出警报。
• Despite intermittent wars and famines, the long-term trend is for a better life for almost everybody.
  虽然有时会发生战争和饥荒，但长期趋势是几乎所有人的生活都能得到改善。
• In the 17 years of his misrule, famines intensified and rebellions multiplied.
  他17年执政不善，这期间饥荒加剧，暴乱迭起。
• Many people died during famines every year before liberation.
  解放前每年有许多人在饥荒中死亡。
• During the famines of1840 and1848, it was what almost all peasants had to eat.
  1840-1848年俄罗斯饥荒期间，几乎所有农民都赖此为生。
• Communications satellites may be able to cope with the short-term needs during disasters such as earthquakes, wars or famines.
  通信卫星可能满足短期的需要，例如地震、战争和饥荒。
• This would support the theory that biological traits that helped human beings survive famines have become disease-causing in times of plenty, they said.
  他们说这也支持了这样一种观点，即帮助人类度过饥荒的生物特点在食物逐渐丰盛过程中变成了致病原因。