famine
n. 饥荒；极度缺乏
近义词：shortage，want，starvation，scarcity，lack，absence，need，deficiency，dearth，foodshortage，deprivation，plenty，
详细释义
n.(名词)
- 饥荒，饥馑，灾荒，荒
- 饥饿
- 奇缺，匮竭，极度缺乏
- 歉收
- 饥荒时期，饥馑年代
双解释义
n.(名词)
- [C][U]饥荒 (a case of) extreme lack of food for a very large number of people
英英释义
Noun
- an acute insufficiency
- a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
组词搭配
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
例句
用作名词(n.)
- War, famine and flood are terrible evils.战争、饥荒和洪水都是可怕的灾祸。
- Famine is often the sequel to war or drought.饥荒往往是战争或干旱造成的。
- 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。
- We are collecting money for the famine victim.我们在为遭受饥荒的灾民募捐。
- Thousands of people died of famine.千千万万的人死于饥荒。
- 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。