famine

famine音标

英 [ˈfæmɪn]

美 [ˈfæmɪn]

famine基本释义

n.饥荒；极度缺乏

famine用法及例句

n.(名词)

饥荒，饥馑，灾荒，荒

饥饿

奇缺，匮竭，极度缺乏

歉收

饥荒时期，饥馑年代

n.(名词)

[C][U]饥荒 (a case of) extreme lack of food for a very large number of people

noun

1. a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

2. an acute insufficiency

Synonym: dearthshortage

1. 饥馑;饥荒Famine is a situation in which large numbers of people have little or no food, and many of them die.

e.g. 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。e.g. 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。

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1. 饥饿：是以牛津大学学术委员会的前两个字母(Ox)和饥饿(Famine)前一部分组成. 在全世界15000多家店铺中销售捐献的物品或是通过募集筹集资金. 早期的焦点集中于消除饥饿,但渐渐将目光放到了根本性解决贫穷和饥饿的问题上.

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2. 荒：3DO开发的角色扮演游戏<>(The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse)已经吸引了众多玩家的注意,它其中包含的四个部分内容:战争(war)、饥荒(famine)、死亡(death)和瘟疫(pestilence)已经有两部分发布了,

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3. 饿：是以牛津大学学术委员会的前两个字母(Ox)和饥饿(Famine)前一部分组成. 在全世界15000多家店铺中销售捐献的物品或是通过募集筹集资金. 早期的焦点集中於消除饥饿,但渐渐将目光放到了根本性解决贫穷和饥饿的问题上.

常用例句

词汇搭配

用作名词(n.)

Many people die of starvation during famines every year.每年发生饥荒时都有许多人饿死。

The long drought was followed by months of famine.久旱之后出现长达数月的饥荒。

用作名词 (n.)

cause famine引起饥荒

die of famine饿死

suffer from famine闹饥荒

big famine大饥荒

widespread famine蔓延甚广的饥荒

worldwide famine世界性饥荒

perish by〔with〕 famine饿死

This was one of the periods of tobacco famine and there was not a cigarette in the place.

出自：G. Orwell

词源解说

☆ 直接源自拉丁语的famēs意为饥饿。

近义词

反义词

临近词

shortage不足

scarcity缺乏

deficiency缺乏

absence缺席

want要

deprivation剥夺

food shortage粮食短缺

need需要

lack缺乏

dearth缺乏

starvation饿死

plenty

famine edema

family

Famine Policy

famine year

famine strike

famine dropsy

famous

famine price

famine prices

famine fever

famine phase

famine victim

相关列句

They decided not to count on foreign aid to relieve the famine.(他们决定不依靠外援来救灾。)

Many charities sent money to help the victims of the famine.(许多慈善机构捐款赈济饥民。)

If the drought continues there's going to be a famine.(如果旱灾继续下去很可能要发生饥荒。)

Officials of the World Food Programme, WFP, say they are receiving information that famine has gripped parts of central Afghanistan.(世界粮食计划署的官员说，他们收到的信息是，阿富汗中部部分地区出现了饥荒。)

If all these were not enough, famine is a dreadful possibility.(如果这一切还不够，饥荒也是个可怕的可能性。)

A push factor can be as simple and mild a matter as difficulty in finding a suitable job, or as traumatic as war, or severe famine.(推动因素可以是简单而轻微的事情，比如找不到合适的工作，也可以是创伤性的事情，比如战争或严重的饥荒。)

Famine hit that benighted country once more.(饥荒再次袭击了那个落后的国家。)

Thousands of refugees are trapped by war, drought and famine.(成千上万的难民陷于战争、干旱和饥荒的困境。)

Yet occurrences of food shortages and droughts are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies.(然而，粮食短缺和干旱的出现导致了一些地区的饥荒和灾难，而且工业和农业副产品也污染了水源。)

They often sensationalise news stories, glamorizing the lives of the rich and the famous at the expense of real news stories such as war and famine.(他们经常炒作新闻故事：美化富人和名人的生活，而牺牲了真实的新闻故事，如战争和饥荒。)