famine

英 ['fæmɪn] 美 ['fæmɪn]

• n. 饥荒；极度缺乏

famine的英文翻译是什么意思，词典释义与在线翻译：

详尽释义

n. (名词)

1. 饥荒，饥馑，灾荒，荒
2. 饥饿
3. 奇缺，匮竭，极度缺乏
4. 歉收
5. 饥荒时期，饥馑年代

双解释义

n. (名词)

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

英英释义

Noun:

1. an acute insufficiency

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

famine的用法和样例：

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. War, famine and flood are terrible evils.
   战争、饥荒和洪水都是可怕的灾祸。
2. Famine is often the sequel to war or drought.
   饥荒往往是战争或干旱造成的。
3. It's impossible to remain unmoved by her reports of the famine.
   任何人对她报道的饥荒情况都不可能无动于衷。
4. We are collecting money for the famine victim.
   我们在为遭受饥荒的灾民募捐。
5. Thousands of people died of famine.
   千千万万的人死于饥荒。
6. People in the eastern cities thought they faced a serious coal famine .
   东部各城市的人民认为他们面临一次严重的煤荒。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• cause famine 引起饥荒
• die of famine 饿死
• suffer from famine 闹饥荒

形容词+～

• big famine 大饥荒
• widespread famine 蔓延甚广的饥荒
• worldwide famine 世界性饥荒

介词+～

• perish by〔with〕 famine 饿死

经典引文

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

  出自： G. Orwell

famine的相关资料：

近反义词

【近义词】

• shortage 不足
• want 要
• starvation 饿死
• scarcity 缺乏
• lack 缺乏
• absence 缺席
• need 需要
• deficiency 缺乏
• dearth 缺乏
• food shortage 粮食短缺
• deprivation 剥夺

【反义词】

• plenty