famine

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famine 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 饥荒, 缺乏, 饥饿

英文释义

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

famine 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 famine 在自然语境里怎么用：

Community gardens in Paris, fertilized with horse manure, generated produce that fed the city through periods of famine.

—— The Best Books of 2026 So Far

Following the shifting allegiances of her husband from post-Revolution exile in Prague and Paris back to wartime Russia, famine, and doom, she wrote.

—— Jayne Anne Phillips Wonders What Happens to Writers If They Don’t Write?

According to Wong, the poem was written to commemorate her ancestors who were lost to The Great Leap Forward, the largest famine in human history.

—— One great poem to read today: Jane Wong’s “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly”

The majority of the settlers at Ciudad del Rey Don Felipe—later dubbed Puerto del Hambre, or “Port Famine”—succumbed to starvation, the elements and various diseases.

—— Hundreds of Spanish Settlers Died at the 'Port of Famine.' This Newly Discovered Silver Coin Reveals Where the Doomed Colony Was Founded 400 Years Ago

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