famine
英 ['fæmɪn]
美['fæmɪn]
- n. 饥荒；饥饿，奇缺
词态变化
复数: famines;
助记提示
1. 发米呢.
2. 拼音法: 发(fa)米(mi)了(ne) 闹饥荒的时候,政府发米.
2. 拼音法: 发(fa)米(mi)了(ne) 闹饥荒的时候,政府发米.
中文词源
famine 饥饿，饥荒
来自拉丁语fames,饥饿，饥荒。
英英释意
- 1. an acute insufficiency
- 2. a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
英文词源
- famine
- famine: [14] Both famine and famish [14] come ultimately from Latin famēs ‘hunger’. Its Vulgar Latin derivative *faminis produced Old French famine, source of English famine. Famish has come via a more circuitous route: another Vulgar Latin derivative of famēs was *affamāre, a compound verb formed with the prefix ad- ‘towards’; in Old French this became afamer, which was borrowed into Middle English, with loss of its first syllable, as fame ‘starve’; and before long this had the suffix -ish added to it, on the model of other verbs such as abolish and diminish.
=> famish - famine (n.)
- mid-14c., from Old French famine "famine, starvation" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *famina, from Latin fames "hunger, starvation, famine," which is of unknown origin.
同义词辨析
hunger, famine, starvation
这些名词均有"饥饿"之意。
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。
实用场景例句
- a severe famine
- 严重饥荒
牛津词典
- disasters such as floods and famine
- 水灾和饥荒这一类灾难
牛津词典
- the threat of widespread famine in the area
- 这一地区内的大范围的饥荒威胁
牛津词典
- to raise money for famine relief
- 为赈济饥荒筹款
牛津词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Against a background of impending famine, heavy fighting took place.
- 即将发生饥荒之时, 严重的战乱爆发了.
《简明英汉词典》
- Famine caused widespread distress.
- 饥荒引起了普遍的忧虑.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Many people die of famine every year.
- 每年有很多人死于饥荒.
辞典例句
- We're collecting for the famine victims.
- 我们正在为遭受饥荒的灾民募款.
《简明英汉词典》
- They lived through the long famine.
- 他们经历了长久的饥荒而未死.
《简明英汉词典》
- Famine visited this region.
- 饥荒侵袭了这一地区.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- They decided not to count on foreign aid to relieve the famine.
- 他们决定不依靠外援来救灾.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Thousands died of famine.
- 数千人死于饥荒.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Famine and war still afflict mankind.
- 饥饿和战争仍使人类遭受痛苦.
《简明英汉词典》
- It has been predicted that the Earth will tilt on its axis , causing catastrophic famine and disease.
- 有人曾预言地球会导致大荒灾和疾病.
《简明英汉词典》
- They were crazed by the famine and pestilence of that bitter winter.
- 他们因那年严冬的饥饿与瘟疫而折磨得发狂.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Famine stared us in the face.
- 饥荒迫在眉睫.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- We made a contribution to the famine relief fund.
- 我们给饥荒赈济基金捐了款.
《简明英汉词典》
- The peasants store up the grain against famine.
- 农民们贮粮备荒.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- There was once a grievous famine in the land.
- 该国曾经发生过一次大饥荒.
《简明英汉词典》
- It is conservatively estimated that not less than half a million people died in the famine.
- 据保守估计,死于这场饥荒的人数不少于50万.
《简明英汉词典》
- Spend a year of plenty the way you spend a year of want and remind yourself of famine even when the barn is full.
- 丰年要当歉年过,有粮常想无粮时.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- People bought in stocks of tinned goods in anticipation of a famine year.
- 人们买进大量罐头食品以防饥荒的一年.
《简明英汉词典》
- Many charities sent money to help the victims of the famine.
- 许多慈善机构捐款赈济饥民。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- disasters such as floods and famine
- 水灾和饥荒这一类灾难
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- 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。
柯林斯例句
- We can deliver supplies and work to break the back of the famine.
- 我们可以运送物资，努力解决饥荒中最关键的问题。
柯林斯例句
- This is not another appeal for famine relief.
- 这不是为赈济饥荒的又一次募捐。
柯林斯例句