famine是什么意思

音标:英 [ˈfæmɪn]美 [ˈfæmɪn]

饥荒, 缺乏, 饥饿

a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

famine的用法和例句：

1. The cycles of feast and famine that humankind has been subjected to was an important natural selective process, in which all the babies or the people a little bit chubbier would survive the periods of famine and then be able to gain the weight during the period of feast.

在饥饿与富足的循环中 人类则要经历 重要的自然选择过程 在这一过程中 丰满的 或者是婴儿 可以在饥荒的情况下生存下来 而在食物充足的时候 他们会增加体重

2. And those who were conceived after the famine...didn't.

而饥荒之后孕育的宝宝则不会

3. In a famine, that is not just wealth.

在饥荒中 这不仅是财富

4. He'd helped them all... through famines, disease.

他帮助所有人 撑过饥饿 瘟疫

5. To raise the horsemen of pestilence and famine.

就是为了召唤瘟疫和饥荒骑士

6. I have survived war. I've survived famine.

撑过了战争 熬过了饥荒

7. Through famine with the basket boy and girl.

有饥荒中被放入篮子遗弃的男女

8. All those stories you covered famines, poverty.

那些你报道的故事 饥荒 贫困

9. to your plants and the whole famine thing.

向你种的植物以及饥荒致敬

10. He promised a plague, and famine and terror.

他承诺要掀起瘟疫 饥荒和恐惧