Famine
['fæmɪn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death.
法耶手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
編輯:莎蒂
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Dearth, scarcity of food.
丹尼整理
解釋/意思:
n. general scarcity of food: extreme scarcity of anything as in 'famine prices ' &c.: hunger: starvation.
乔迪校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
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/造句/用法:
- 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. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- 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. 維萊特.
- Plague, earthquake, and famine, And tumult and war, The wonderful coming Of Jesus declare! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The God sends down his angry plagues from high, Famine and pestilence in heaps they die. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He was a mechanic; and, rendered unable to attend to the occupation which supplied his necessities, famine was added to his other miseries. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- 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. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Georgy's house is not a very lively one since Uncle Jos's annuity has been withdrawn and the little family are almost upon famine diet.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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He pictured to himself a youth, whose eyes sparkled with genius, whose person was attenuated by famine. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Mexico laid waste by the united effects of storm, pestilence and famine. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- These worthies suffer in the flesh and do penance all their lives, I suppose, but they look like consummate famine-breeders. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Famine and blockade were certain means of conquest; and on these we founded our hopes of victory. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- On Egdon, coldest and meanest kisses were at famine prices, and where was a mouth matching hers to be found? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Hence the exorbitant price of the necessaries of life during the blockade of a town, or in a famine. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I wish he could have witnessed the horrible avidity with which Oliver tore the bits asunder with all the ferocity of famine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
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