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单词 famine
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famine
noun[CorU]
uk
/ˈfæm.ɪn/us
/ˈfæm.ɪn/
C2
asituationin which there is not enoughfoodfor agreatnumberofpeople,causingillnessanddeath, or aparticularperiodwhen thishappens:
饥荒；饥荒时期
Anothercropfailurecouldresultinwidespreadfamine.如果庄稼再次歉收就可能导致大范围饥荒。
There werereportsofrefugeesdyingoffamine.有一些关于难民饿死的报告。
Thousands ofpeopleemigratedduring theIrishpotatofamine of 1845–46.在1845年到1846年间的爱尔兰马铃薯饥荒时期，成千上万的人移居国外。
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(Definition offaminefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

famine| American Dictionary

famine
noun[C/U]
us
/ˈfæm·ən/
anextremelackoffoodin aregion,causingsufferinganddeath:
[U]Widespread famine wasreportedin theregion.
(Definition offaminefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffamine

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The dispute thus centred on the value of visual evidence from different observers during thefamineand in the past.
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The severity offaminegradually increased in the east which slowly proceeded from west through the decades.
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How could the effects of these famines have been so severe and what lessons can we learn from those terrible events?
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For such communities, strategies of risk aversion, as well as customary responses tofamine, would still have mattered.
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Although before this there had been a history of food-for-work conservation measures, especially following the 1973famine, these really took off from the mid1980s.
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However, specific empirical critiques of the making and implementing offaminepolicy were more effective.
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Some even predicted a near-global meltdown with famines stretching across our globe.
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Abnormally high motality may be the hallmark offamine, but societal breakdown is its essence.
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Fifteen droughts were severe enough to have causedfamine, and 11 of them, or 87%, followed large eruptions within two years.
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Moreover, some of the workers left areas plagued byfamine.
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Certainly some of the prints showed starvation andfamineso severe that money and supplies must have been wanted.
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However, human migrations, landless people,famineand fragmented landscapes speak for themselves.
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Their greatest differences stemmed from the manner in which they presented themselves asfaminemanagers, and to whom.
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At this point, villages were teetering on the brink offamineas locust invasions threatened to consume the limited food crops that had been planted.
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This was a gritty world of poverty, famines, floods, banditry, unrest.
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