C2a situation in which there is not enough food for a great number of people, causing illness and death, or a particular period when this happens饥荒;饥荒时期
Another crop failure could result in widespread famine.如果庄稼再次歉收就可能导致大范围饥荒。
There were reports of refugees dying of famine.有一些关于难民饿死的报告。
Thousands of people emigrated during the Irish potato famine 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。
ADJECTIVE | VERB + FAMINE | FAMINE + VERB | FAMINE + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤devastating, great, severe, terrible毀滅性的饑荒;大饑荒;嚴重饑荒▸➤widespread大範圍的饑荒➤man-made人為造成的饑荒VERB + FAMINE➤face, suffer面臨/遭受饑荒◇Four million people are now facing famine.400 萬人正面臨饑荒。◇countries that regularly suffer famines經常遭受饑荒的國家➤survive從饑荒中幸存下來▸➤cause引發饑荒➤prevent防止饑荒FAMINE + VERB➤strike饑荒發生◇When famine strikes, it is often women and children who suffer the most.發生饑荒時,受害最深的往往是婦女和兒童。FAMINE + NOUN➤relief饑荒救濟➤victim饑荒災民PREPOSITION➤during a/the famine在饑荒中◇Thousands of people died during the terrible famine of that year.數以千計的人在那年的可怕饑荒中喪命。PHRASES➤a threat of famine饑荒的威脅