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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They counted on foreign grain to relieve their famines.
  他们依靠外国粮食救灾。
• 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。
• This increases the risks of economic crises during famines.
  而这也就加大了在饥荒时期爆发经济危机的风险。
• 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。
• When news arrived of distant floods and famines, malfeasance and malnutrition, they told themselves that theirs was a world apart.
  当新闻报导远方闹洪涝饥荒、违法渎职和百姓营养不良时，他们自我安慰可以偏安另一个世界。
• Many people died during famines every year before liberation.
  解放前每年有许多人在饥荒中死亡。