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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• If people follow this authority as slavishly as he would wish, the results could be terrible famines, diseases, and wars, caused by overcrowding.
  如果人们像教皇希望的那样，绝对服从这种权威，结果将是可怕的饥荒、疾病和战争，这都是由人口过多引起的。
• She said the slow pace of fund-raising reminded her of efforts to raise money for famines.
  她说，这种缓慢的筹款步伐，让她想起为饥荒筹集资金的时候。
• And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
  地要大大震动，多处必有饥荒瘟疫。又有可怕的异象，和大神迹，从天上显现。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。