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

• Nor does he omit the plagues, famines and diseases which made life a lottery for everyone, rich or poor, until the most recent times.
  直到现在，他没有疏忽使人人（无论贫富）生活都不得安宁的瘟疫、饥荒和疾病。
• While rising food prices strain household budgets in the west, they risk famines in Africa and Asia.
  虽然粮食价格的上涨给西方人的生活开支造成了压力，但它在非洲和亚洲却意味着饥荒的危险。
• Harvest failures had caused famines on a scale not seen for a century.
  收获剧减造成了百年未见的大规模饥荒。
• 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。
• Do you know there'd be no more famines if we used land to grow food for people instead of cattle GetWord(" cattle");?
  你知不知道，如果我们把土地用来种粮食而不养家禽的话，那么这个世界上就不会再有饥荒了？
• From the perspective of the overlap of economic history and social history, the present thesis makes an analysis of the famines and discovers that famines affect greatly the formation of the labor market, the abnormal prosperity of commodity economy and the intensified aggression of the foreign economy.
  摘要从经济史和社会史交叉的视野切入，分析灾荒，可见其对劳动力市场的形成、商品经济的畸形繁荣、外来经济入侵加剧等有着重要的作用。
• 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 China, major floods followed extreme droughts, and frequent famines led to mass starvation and death.
  在中国，巨大的洪水过后，又遭受了极为严重的旱灾，不断发生的饥荒造成了大范围的饥饿、死亡。
• They counted on foreign grain to relieve their famines.
  他们依靠外国粮食救灾。
• Prior to the Bretton Woods system, foreign aid primarily assisted with humanitarian crises: famines; floods; earthquakes; or people fleeing conflicts.
  在布雷顿森林体系建立之前，对外援助主要用于人道主义危机：饥荒；洪涝；地震；或是帮助逃离战争冲突的人。