Famine
['fæmɪn]
解释:
(noun.) a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death.
法耶手打--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
编辑:莎蒂
同义词及近义词：
n. Dearth, scarcity of food.
丹尼整理
解释:
n. general scarcity of food: extreme scarcity of anything as in 'famine prices ' &c.: hunger: starvation.
乔迪校对
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a famine, foretells that your business will be unremunerative and sickness will prove a scourge. This dream is generally bad. If you see your enemies perishing by famine, you will be successful in competition. If dreams of famine should break in wild confusion over slumbers, tearing up all heads in anguish, filling every soul with care, hauling down Hope's banners, somber with omens of misfortune and despair, your waking grief more poignant still must grow ere you quench ambition and en{??}y{envy??} overthrow.
整理:内莉
例句:
- One night last summer he glared at me like Famine and Sword, and it made me feel so low that I didn't comb out my few hairs for two days. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Plague, earthquake, and famine, And tumult and war, The wonderful coming Of Jesus declare! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The God sends down his angry plagues from high, Famine and pestilence in heaps they die. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- He was a mechanic; and, rendered unable to attend to the occupation which supplied his necessities, famine was added to his other miseries. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- It had appeared a sudden famine to her heart, this entire cessation of any news respecting the people amongst whom she had lived so long. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Georgy's house is not a very lively one since Uncle Jos's annuity has been withdrawn and the little family are almost upon famine diet. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- He pictured to himself a youth, whose eyes sparkled with genius, whose person was attenuated by famine. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Mexico laid waste by the united effects of storm, pestilence and famine. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- These worthies suffer in the flesh and do penance all their lives, I suppose, but they look like consummate famine-breeders. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Famine and blockade were certain means of conquest; and on these we founded our hopes of victory. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- On Egdon, coldest and meanest kisses were at famine prices, and where was a mouth matching hers to be found? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- There was possibly much local variation, the rule of violent bullies here and a good-tempered freedom there, famine this year and plenty the next. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Hence the exorbitant price of the necessaries of life during the blockade of a town, or in a famine. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- I wish he could have witnessed the horrible avidity with which Oliver tore the bits asunder with all the ferocity of famine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
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