famines

英 [ˈfæmɪnz] 美 [ˈfæmənz]

n.  饥荒
famine的复数

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  1. N-VAR 饥馑;饥荒
    Famine is 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。
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双语例句

  1. Drought and famines have killed up to two million people here.
    旱灾和饥荒夺去了这里200万人的生命。
  2. In the 17 years of his misrule, famines intensified and rebellions multiplied.
    他17年执政不善，这期间饥荒加剧，暴乱迭起。
  3. Many people died during famines every year before liberation.
    解放前每年有许多人在饥荒中死亡。
  4. 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。
  5. Watching the wars and famines on the news takes on a whole new meaning when you have a personal connection with the people there.
    亲眼目睹人们饱受战争与饥饿之苦时，新闻中播放的战争与饥饿会在你眼前呈现出全新的概念。
  6. Do you know there'd be no more famines if we used land to grow food for people instead of cattle GetWord(" cattle");?
    你知不知道，如果我们把土地用来种粮食而不养家禽的话，那么这个世界上就不会再有饥荒了？
  7. Professor Jonathan Bate, the Shakespeare scholar and provost of Worcester College, Oxford, said Archer and her colleagues had performed a valuable service in setting Shakespeare's work in the context of the famines and food shortages of the period.
    乔纳森-贝特是牛津大学伍斯特学院的教务长，同时也是研究莎士比亚的学者。他说，阿彻女士及其团队的发现对研究莎翁笔下大饥荒与粮食短缺时期的作品很有价值。
  8. She said the slow pace of fund-raising reminded her of efforts to raise money for famines.
    她说，这种缓慢的筹款步伐，让她想起为饥荒筹集资金的时候。
  9. When famines threatened, newspapers alerted the powerbrokers.
    当饥荒构成威胁时，报纸会向政治掮客们发出警报。
  10. She has become so poor that she has little power of resisting famines.
    印度已经穷得对饥荒没有抵御能力了。
  11. 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。
  12. 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。
  13. 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。
  14. If people follow this authority as slavishly as he would wish, the results could be terrible famines, diseases, and wars, caused by overcrowding.
    如果人们像教皇希望的那样，绝对服从这种权威，结果将是可怕的饥荒、疾病和战争，这都是由人口过多引起的。
  15. Millions of Ukrainians died in the Stalin-imposed famines of the 1930s, which gives modern Ukrainians good grounds to be suspicious of Russian offers of protection.
    上世纪30年代，数百万乌克兰人在那场斯大林造成的饥荒中死亡，这让现代乌克兰人有充分理由对俄罗斯提出的保护打个问号。
  16. At home the landhad been ravaged by floods and earthquakes, and famines had driven thedispossessed and even samurai to storm the rice warehouses of the daimyo, the local lords.
    在国内，洪水和地震肆虐，赤地千里，饿殍遍野，甚至武士阶级也开始掠夺大名的米仓。
  17. Harvest failures had caused famines on a scale not seen for a century.
    收获剧减造成了百年未见的大规模饥荒。
  18. Droughts, floods and famines would ensue, experts say, and then the mass migration of people, with the conflict that would engender.
    专家表示，干旱、洪水和饥荒将随之而来，然后是大规模的人口迁移，最终引发冲突。
  19. In China, major floods followed extreme droughts, and frequent famines led to mass starvation and death.
    在中国，巨大的洪水过后，又遭受了极为严重的旱灾，不断发生的饥荒造成了大范围的饥饿、死亡。
  20. 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。
  21. This would support the theory that biological traits that helped human beings survive famines have become disease-causing in times of plenty, they said.
    他们说这也支持了这样一种观点，即帮助人类度过饥荒的生物特点在食物逐渐丰盛过程中变成了致病原因。
  22. 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。
  23. 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。
  24. 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。
  25. 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。
  26. They counted on foreign grain to relieve their famines.
    他们依靠外国粮食救灾。
  27. Communications satellites may be able to cope with the short-term needs during disasters such as earthquakes, wars or famines.
    通信卫星可能满足短期的需要，例如地震、战争和饥荒。
  28. 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。
  29. Famines became worse each season, especially in Asia.
    饥荒每一个季度都在加剧，尤其是在亚洲。
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