famine

英['fæmɪn] 美['fæmɪn]

复数: famines;

1. 发米呢.
2. 拼音法: 发(fa)米(mi)了(ne) 闹饥荒的时候,政府发米.

famine 饥饿，饥荒

来自拉丁语fames,饥饿，饥荒。

famine: famine: [14] Both famine and famish [14] come ultimately from Latin famēs ‘hunger’. Its Vulgar Latin derivative *faminis produced Old French famine, source of English famine. Famish has come via a more circuitous route: another Vulgar Latin derivative of famēs was *affamāre, a compound verb formed with the prefix ad- ‘towards’; in Old French this became afamer, which was borrowed into Middle English, with loss of its first syllable, as fame ‘starve’; and before long this had the suffix -ish added to it, on the model of other verbs such as abolish and diminish.
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famine (n.): mid-14c., from Old French famine "famine, starvation" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *famina, from Latin fames "hunger, starvation, famine," which is of unknown origin.

1. The civil war is obstructing distribution of famine relief by aid agencies.: 内战阻碍着救援机构对饥荒赈济物资的配给。

3. The famine turned the normal modulation of climate into disaster.: 正常的气候变化因饥荒而成了灾难。

4. The proceeds from the concert will go towards famine relief.: 音乐会的收入将用于救助饥荒。