英 [ˈfæmɪn] 美 [ˈfæmɪn]
n. 饥荒，饥馑；匮乏，短缺；<古>饥饿
复数famines
famine /ˈfæmɪn/ CET4 TEM4
有变体名词 Famine is a situation in which large numbers of people have little or no food, and many of them die. 饥荒
Thousands of refugees are trapped by war, drought and famine.
成千上万的难民陷于战争、干旱和饥荒的困境。
灾荒-引用次数：177
Economic development had in turn give the famine and disaster good or bad impacts.
而经济的发展反过来也给灾荒的发生和减灾救荒造成了或好或坏的影响。
参考来源隋唐时期灾荒经济研究
灾荒-引用次数：19
The influnce of population growth on social economy and famine vicissitudes.
三、人口增长对社会经济及其灾荒变迁的影响。
参考来源清代山东地区的灾荒与人口变迁
饥荒-引用次数：17
参考来源我国农地的市地转型研究
饥荒
开普勒说Mi和Fa分别代表痛苦（Misery）和饥荒（Famine），这也解释了地球的悲惨状况；这种观点在古希腊以降的思想家当中再正常不过，他们普遍认为地球是一个腐朽不堪、声名狼藉的世界，...
... familyn.家，家庭；家族 faminen.饥荒；严重的缺乏 famousa.著名的，出名的 ...
... familiar a.熟悉的;通晓的;亲近的 n.熟客;密友 famine n.饥荒,饥馑 fancy n.爱好,迷恋 v.想象,幻想 a.花式的,奇特的 ...
波特兰灾荒(Famine)是从11月尾先河的，有时，在与人交往中，我们需要做的是安慰别人，而不是标榜自己。
Famine hit that benighted country once more.
饥荒再次袭击了那个落后的国家。
The famine threatened to depopulate the continent.
饥荒威胁着该大陆人口数量。
If the drought continues there's going to be a famine.
如果旱灾继续下去很可能要发生饥荒。
But late blight was also the cause of the potato famine in Ireland in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.
VOA : special.2009.10.20
So yet another threat to the promise is overcome: threat of famine is overcome by the relocation to Egypt.
因此，另一个对承诺的威胁被克服了：,迁移至埃及克服了饥荒的威胁。
旧约导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
I remember my first exposure way back in the 60s was a photo of the Biafra famine you remember in the civil war in Nigeria.
我记得我第一次感受到贫困，是在60年代,那是一张关于尼日利亚饥荒的照片,你应该记得，是尼日利亚内战期间。
人性课程节选 : 普林斯顿公开课
Late blight was also the cause of the potato famine in Ireland in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.
VOA : special.2009.11.03
"Rinderpest affected Africa, Asia and Europe for millennia and caused widespread famine and decimated millions of animals, both domestic and wild."
VOA : special.2010.11.02
He received a national news Emmy Award for his coverage of the 1988 Sudan famine.
CNN: CNN Profiles - Jim Bittermann - Senior European Correspondent
Michael cared deeply and used that talent to help bring attention to famine and poverty in Africa.
In the several years before famine was acknowledged, perhaps 2m died from that and related causes.