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

• 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。
• 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。
• Droughts, floods and famines would ensue, experts say, and then the mass migration of people, with the conflict that would engender.
  专家表示，干旱、洪水和饥荒将随之而来，然后是大规模的人口迁移，最终引发冲突。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。