famine
英 [ˈfæmɪn] 美 [ˈfæmɪn]

n.

饥荒；饥饿；极度缺乏；

变形

复数：famines

双语释义

n.(名词)

1. [C][U]饥荒 (a case of) extreme lack of food for a very large number of people

英英释义

famine[ 'fæmin ]

• n.
  • an acute insufficiency

    同义词：dearthshortage

  • a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

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

同近义词辨析

hunger, famine, starvation

这组词都有“饥饿”的意思，其区别是：

hunger普通用词，指人体对于食物迫切需要的正常生理现象。

famine指因天灾人祸而引起大规模饥荒；用作引申，指严重缺乏某种物资或人力。

starvation语气比hunger强得多。指因长期缺乏食物所造成的痛苦，甚至死亡，侧重人为的灾难所致。

双语例句

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。

权威例句

Schizophrenia after prenatal famine. Further evidence.
Feast and famine: critical role of glucocorticoids with insulin in daily energy flow
Obesity in young men after famine exposure in utero and early infancy.
Glucose tolerance in adults after prenatal exposure to famine.
Obesity at the age of 50 y in men and women exposed to famine prenatally
Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans
DNA methylation differences after exposure to prenatal famine are common and timing- and sex-specific.
Persistent epigenetic differences associated with prenatal exposure to famine in humans
DNA methy­lation differences after exposure to prenatal famine are common and timing- and sex-specific. Hum Mol Genet
Ravelli, A. C. et al. Glucose tolerance in adults after prenatal exposure to famine. Lancet 351, 173-177