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famine n.饥荒；极度缺乏 (1) 战争、饥荒和洪水都是可怕的灾祸。(2) 饥荒往往是战争或干旱造成的。(3) 任何人对她报道的饥荒情况都不可能无动于衷。(4) 我们在为遭受饥荒的灾民募捐。(5) 千千万万的人死于饥荒。(6) 东部各城市的人民认为他们面临一次严重的煤荒。 Although the "extreme shortage of food" meaning is most common, the noun famine can also mean any shortage or insufficiency, and it is often used idiomatically in the phrase "feast or famine." This usage refers to something that is alternately plentiful and scarce — like the feast and famine experienced by an artist who only occasionally sells his paintings.

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英 ['fæmɪn] 美 ['fæmɪn] (1) War, famine and flood are terrible evils.(2) Famine is often the sequel to war or drought.(3) It's impossible to remain unmoved by her reports of the famine.(4) We are collecting money for the famine victim.(5) Thousands of people died of famine.(6) People in the eastern cities thought they faced a serious coal famine . A famine is a severe shortage of food, but not the "I forgot to go to the grocery store and there's nothing to eat in the house" type of shortage. A famine is usually caused by crop failure or disaster. 1[N-VAR 可变名词]饥馑；饥荒 Famine is a situation in which large numbers of people have little or no food, and many of them die. 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。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。

英语单词	famine
英美音标	英 ['fæmɪn] 美 ['fæmɪn]
中文释义	n.饥荒；极度缺乏
英语例句	(1) War, famine and flood are terrible evils. (2) Famine is often the sequel to war or drought. (3) It's impossible to remain unmoved by her reports of the famine. (4) We are collecting money for the famine victim. (5) Thousands of people died of famine. (6) People in the eastern cities thought they faced a serious coal famine .
中文例句	(1) 战争、饥荒和洪水都是可怕的灾祸。 (2) 饥荒往往是战争或干旱造成的。 (3) 任何人对她报道的饥荒情况都不可能无动于衷。 (4) 我们在为遭受饥荒的灾民募捐。 (5) 千千万万的人死于饥荒。 (6) 东部各城市的人民认为他们面临一次严重的煤荒。
vocabulary简明	A famine is a severe shortage of food, but not the "I forgot to go to the grocery store and there's nothing to eat in the house" type of shortage. A famine is usually caused by crop failure or disaster.
vocabulary扩展	Although the "extreme shortage of food" meaning is most common, the noun famine can also mean any shortage or insufficiency, and it is often used idiomatically in the phrase "feast or famine." This usage refers to something that is alternately plentiful and scarce — like the feast and famine experienced by an artist who only occasionally sells his paintings.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-VAR 可变名词]饥馑；饥荒 Famine is a situation in which large numbers of people have little or no food, and many of them die. 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。 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。

Famine People Shortage War Thousands Food 英 Fæmɪn] 美