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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Miguel does not think it's a coincidence that the healers also provide the women with food and shelter during famines, in expectation of payments from their families in better times.
  米格尔称，医师还会在饥荒期间为这些女性提供食物和住处，希望等情况好转后得到其家人的报答，他认为这并非巧合。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Nor does he omit the plagues, famines and diseases which made life a lottery for everyone, rich or poor, until the most recent times.
  直到现在，他没有疏忽使人人（无论贫富）生活都不得安宁的瘟疫、饥荒和疾病。