音标:['fæmin] ; 柯林斯词典等级:2 级;
n. 饥荒, 缺乏, 饥饿
n. a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
词型变化:名词复数形式 : famines
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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。

常见句型

用作名词(n.)
  1. Many people die of starvation during famines every year.每年发生饥荒时都有许多人饿死。
  2. The long drought was followed by months of famine.久旱之后出现长达数月的饥荒。

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
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