famine

英['fæmin]美['fæmin]

n.
1.[C,U] 饥荒
2.[U] 饥饿
3.[C,U] 奇缺

同：	[n.] dearth, shortage

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。

In the burst of emigration from Ireland in the 1840s, the potato famine provided the push.
十九世纪四十年代爱尔兰突然掀起向国外移民的高潮，系由马铃薯的歉收所引起。收藏
In1971 people in Bangladesh were exposed to every kind of danger flood, famine, disease and war.
1971年孟加拉国人民遭受到种种危险：洪水、饥荒、瘟疫和战争。收藏
People found hoarding (food) during the famine were punished.
在荒时期屯积（食物）的人受到了惩罚。收藏
More die by food than famine. ——Thomas fuller
食物致死多于饥饿致死。——富勒收藏
I am appealing on behalf of the famine victims.
我代表饥民恳求援助。收藏

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an acute insufficiency
[同] dearth, famine, shortage
a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

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