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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Millions of Ukrainians died in the Stalin-imposed famines of the 1930s, which gives modern Ukrainians good grounds to be suspicious of Russian offers of protection.
  上世纪30年代，数百万乌克兰人在那场斯大林造成的饥荒中死亡，这让现代乌克兰人有充分理由对俄罗斯提出的保护打个问号。
• 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。
• 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。
• Many people died during famines every year before liberation.
  解放前每年有许多人在饥荒中死亡。
• 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。