famine
['fæmin]
n.饥荒, 极度缺乏
例句与用法:
Millions of people gave freely in response to the famine appeal.
千百万人响应救灾呼吁而慷慨解囊。
War, famine and flood are terrible evils.
战争、饥荒和洪水都是可怕的灾祸。
The Government has pledged itself to send aid to the famine victims.
政府已承诺赈济饥民。
Famine is often the sequel to war or drought.
饥荒往往是战争或干旱造成的。
Under water, famine; under snow, bread.
[谚]洪水造饥馑,瑞雪兆丰年。
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。
We are collecting money for the famine victim.
我们在为遭受饥荒的灾民募捐。
Thousands of people died of famine.
千千万万的人死于饥荒。
n.
1. 饥荒[C][U]
Drought has caused famine in Africa.
干旱在非洲造成了饥荒。
2. 饥饿[U]
3. 奇缺[C][U]
There was a famine of water in this locality.
这地方有过水荒。
famine
名词复数:famines
同义词:
shortage | want | starvation | scarcity | lack | absence | need | deficiency | dearth | food shortage | deprivation |
反义词:
plenty |
词义辨析:
同义:
n.饥荒; 饥饿; 奇缺
starvation
lack
need
want
shortage
deficiency
absence
同义参见:
scarcity
反义:
n.奇缺
plenty
abundance
affluence
famine['fæmin]n.1.■饥荒,饥饿;饥荒时期2.■奇缺,严重缺乏,荒3.■[古语]极大的食欲
faminefamine[ˈfæmin]n.1.■饥荒2.■[古]饥饿3.■极度缺乏; 荒die of famine饿死goods famine商品奇缺
词性变化famine[ˈfæmin]adj.1.■因缺乏而致的famine prices因缺货而造成的高价
[ˈfamɪn]
noun
- [mass noun]extreme scarcity of food
饥馑;饥荒
drought could result in famine throughout the region.
干旱可能导致整个地区出现饥荒。
[count noun]the famine of 1921–1922.
1921–1922年的那场饥荒。
■[count noun]a shortage
匮乏,短缺
the cotton famine of the 1860s.
19世纪60年代的棉花短缺。
■(archaic)hunger
(古)饥饿
- late Middle English: from Old French, from faim 'hunger', from Latin fames
famine
名词 famine:
an acute insufficiency
a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
famine
■Famine comes after feasting.
(谚语)开头大吃大喝,最后忍饥挨饿。
■The famine in 1933 left the peasants helpless.
1933年的那次灾荒使农民陷于毫无办法的境地。
■In1971 people in Bangladesh were exposed to every kind of danger flood, famine, disease and war.
1971年孟加拉国人民遭受到种种危险:洪水、饥荒、瘟疫和战争。
■Under water, famine; under snow, bread.
[谚]洪水造饥馑,瑞雪兆丰年。
■Once on board, they regaled the crew with tales of famine in their villages.
一旦登上船只,海盗就向船员讲述发生在他们村庄的饥荒故事。
■A shower of blood shall fall, and a dire famine shall afflict mankind.
一阵血雨落下,可怕的饥荒会折磨人类。
■Famine exists in many parts of the world.
世界许多地方都发生饥荒。
■Shaw, when people see you, they must think there is a famine in our country.
丘吉尔微笑着对肖伯纳说:“肖伯纳先生,人们看到您,一定为我们国家正在闹饥荒。”
■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。
■The long drought was followed by months of famine.
久旱之後出现长达数月的 荒.
■Someday the world will become free from war, famine and poverty.
也许有一天世界将彻底摆脱战争、饥饿和贫困。
■Drought and famine stalked the land.
乾旱和饥荒肆虐这片土地。
■Drought has caused famine in Africa.
乾旱在非洲造成了饥荒。
■It's impossible to remain unmoved by the reports of the famine.
了解到报道的饥荒情况不可能无动於衷。
■Famine plagued a score of nations.
二十来个国家遭受饥荒。
■People bought in stocks of tinned goods in anticipation of a famine year.
人们买进大量罐头食品以防饥荒的一年。
■The response of the people to the famine appeal was immediate.
人们对救济饥荒的吁求立刻作出了回应.
■The response of the people to the famine appeal is immediate.
人们对救济饥荒的吁求立刻作出了回应。
■Grain redistribution and trade in cotton cloth have helped us greatly this year to recover from the famine.
今年灾荒的克服,我们实行的粮食调剂和棉布交易起了极大的作用。
■They decided not to count on foreign aid to relieve the famine.
他们决定不依靠外援来救灾。
■They heard of the suffering from famine in India with bleeding heart.
他们听闻印度所遭受的饥荒深感同情。
■They were crazed by the famine and pestilence of that bitter winter.
他们因那年严冬的饥饿与瘟疫而折磨得发狂。
■They are crazed by the famine and pestilence of that bitter winter.
他们因那年严冬的饥馑与瘟疫而发狂。
■They perished with [by] famine.
他们死于饥荒。
■They went through the agonies of war and famine.
他们经历了战争和饥荒的痛苦。
■They lived through the long famine.
他们经历了长期的饥荒。
■They are everyday dying and rotting by cold and famine, and filth and vermin.
他们这些人由于寒冷、饥荒、污秽、害虫,天天都在死亡,烂掉。
■You wouldn't believe the horrors they have suffered due to famine and disease.
他们遭遇饥荒和疾病的惨况让人难以置信。
■He is very careless with his money; it is always a feast or a famine with him.
他对钱不大注意,经常有钱就挥霍,没钱就挨饿。
■He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, will vote for nothing but a supply of toothpick.
他是当饥荒之际,只会建议供应牙签的那一类聪明的慈善家之一。
■He's collecting (money) for famine relief.
他正在为赈济饥民募捐.
■A person's toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people.
他的牙痛,对他来讲,要比发生天灾死了数百万人还重要得多。
■He prophesied that there would be a great famine within seven years .
他预言在7年之内将有一场大的饥荒。
■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。
■For these bears, it's the start of famine.
但对这些熊来说,却是饥饿的开始。
■But,He did buy a ticket for the Famine Relief Ball for us...
但是,他毕竟为饥荒中的我们买了一张赈灾舞会的门票。。。...
■Occasional food packages enabled him to last out through the famine.
偶然寄来的食品包裹使他能够度过饥荒。
■The peasants store up the grain against famine.
农民们贮粮备荒。
■Now the famine was severe in the land.
创43:1那地的饥荒甚大。
■There had been a famine of razor blades for months past.
前几个月剃刀刀片严重缺货。
■Thousands of people died of famine.
千千万万的人死于饥荒。
■Millions of people gave freely in response to the famine appeal.
千百万人响应救灾呼吁而慷慨解囊。
■Against a background of impending famine, heavy fighting took place.
即将发生饥荒之时,严重的战乱爆发了。
■Famine hit his home district last year.
去年他老家闹了灾荒。
■What with war and what with famine,the populace at large were caught between two fires.
又是打仗又闹饥荒,平民百姓处于水深火热之中。
■Some time later, there was a great famine throughout the country.
又过了一段时间,全国发生了一场大饥荒。
■More die by food than famine.
吃死的多于饿死的。
■You know what? It is just like we are in a land of famine.
呼,在日本,简直就跟饥荒没差多少啊。
■So they were very hungry, and many of them perished from famine.
因此他们非常饿,其中许多人死于饥荒。
■International food aid is only part of the answer to famine.
国际粮食援助只能解决部分的饥荒问题。