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单词 famine
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Of course, a complete end to war, disease and famine across the globe would be wonderful.There is no sense of the liquidity famine ending any time soon.Famine required people to move abroad to build new lives.Wars that killed more through famine and hunger than through actual conflict.They collect for famine relief and give time to good causes.They were given a potato famine of a script.The world is blighted by drought and famine.The cause of their anguish is not war or famine.The famine relief office officials shrugged and directed me to the military police commander.He insists there is no evidence for claims money sent for famine relief was used to buy arms.It has done more to allay the physical ills of disease and famine than any other impulse known to man.The year-long fish hunger famine had given way to feast.The cold and rain afflicted much of Europe and led to widespread famine and disease.Famine, war and disaster followed.You are thrown into hostile environments: not just war zones but patrols in deserted villages and earthquake zones rife with famine and disease.In most people's minds, drought equals famine.It's one of those outré places that live in self-imposed famine with vanity hunger.But when disease, famine or drought strike, life is cut short.Famine, disease, and misery were rife.We need famine relief, but we're just not a fashionable tribe.The following year was so cold it led to widespread crop failures, famine and disease across Europe.Most have been involved in providing food and medical care to victims of the famine, drought and war in Somalia.

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British English: famine /ˈfæmɪn/ NOUN
A famine is a serious shortage of food in a country, which may cause many deaths.
...refugees trapped by war and famine.
  • American English: famine
  • Arabic: مَجاعَة
  • Brazilian Portuguese: penúria
  • Chinese: 饥荒
  • Croatian: glad
  • Czech: hladomor
  • Danish: hungersnød
  • Dutch: hongersnood
  • European Spanish: hambruna
  • Finnish: nälänhätä
  • French: famine
  • German: Hungersnot
  • Greek: λιμός
  • Italian: carestia
  • Japanese: 飢饉
  • Korean: 기근
  • Norwegian: hungersnød
  • Polish: głód
  • European Portuguese: fome
  • Romanian: foamete
  • Russian: голод
  • Latin American Spanish: hambruna
  • Swedish: hungersnöd
  • Thai: ความขาดแคลนอาหาร
  • Turkish: kıtlık
  • Ukrainian: голод
  • Vietnamese: nạn đói

Chinese translation of 'famine'

famine

(ˈfæmɪn)

n (c/u)

  1. 饥(飢)荒 (jīhuang) (阵(陣), zhèn)
    famine relief 赈(賑)济(濟)饥(飢)荒 (zhènjì jīhuang)
(noun) 
Definition
a severe shortage of food
The severity of the drought led to famine.
Synonyms
hunger
Hundreds of people died of hunger during the famine.
want
The men were daily becoming weaker for want of rest.
starvation
Over three hundred people had died of starvation.
deprivation
Unemployment can sometimes cause social deprivation.
scarcity
an ever-increasing scarcity of water
dearth
a dearth of resources
destitution
attempts made to relieve destitution

Quotation

They that die by famine die by inches [Matthew Henry – Expositions on the Old and New Testament]

Additional synonyms

in the sense of dearth
Definition
an inadequate amount
a dearth of resources
Synonyms
lack,
want,
need,
absence,
poverty,
shortage,
deficiency,
famine,
inadequacy,
scarcity,
paucity (formal),
insufficiency,
sparsity,
scantiness,
exiguousness
in the sense of deprivation
Unemployment can sometimes cause social deprivation.
Synonyms
want,
need,
hardship,
suffering,
distress,
disadvantage,
oppression,
detriment,
privation (formal),
destitution
in the sense of destitution
attempts made to relieve destitution
Synonyms
pennilessness,
want,
distress,
dire straits,
privation (formal),
penury,
neediness,
beggary,
indigence,
pauperism,
impecuniousness,
utter poverty

Synonyms of 'famine'

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